Word: iranians
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Said Must Go. Except in Tabriz, Iranian troops patrolled the streets with armored cars or motorcycles mounting machine guns. In Tabriz, the Red Army simply locked the Iranian garrison in its barracks. Later, a Tass report said Iranian troops in Tabriz had fired on a "peaceful anti-Government demonstration," killed a demonstrator. The Red Army also cut off Iranian grain from the rest of Iran. Cried Kavtaradze and Moscow: Said must...
Britain and the U.S. backed Premier Said, who had refused them further concessions at the same time that he refused the Russians. From London the BBC beamed the British view to Iranians: "The Iranian Government decided to make no oil concessions until after the war. Sir Reader William Bullard, British Minister, is in close touch with the Iranian Government and he has no objection to their decision." The U.S. was reported to have told the Iranian Government: Iran's decision does not cause the U.S. Government regret or alarm because Iran is an independent country...
Cried the Soviet trade-union paper Trud: "Iranian newspapers are inquiring why Premier Said does not resign, as are all public circles in Iran who understand that continuation of Premier Said's policy is harming the interests of Iran...
Young, globe-trotting Herbert Hoover Jr., 41, arrived in Washington from the Middle East and promptly hurried to the complicated grey bird's-nest that is the State Department. Hoover's firm, United Engineering Corp., S.A., has been advising the oil-conscious Iranian Government on its oil policies since last June. By last week Teheran oil politics were gushing over. Three U.S. companies-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp.-were seeking oil concessions from suave, car-mad Mohammed Shah Pahlavi in competition with the British Anglo-Iranian...
...bubbling with feeling against foreigners. In recognition of this, the Shah bluntly told oilmen that no new concessions will be granted till war's end and all foreign troops leave the country. But oilmen took this with a grain of political salt. In prewar years, roughly 20% of Iranian' revenue came from royalties and taxes on oil pumped from the south Iran fields of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. If new fields are opened up, Iran's national income will soar...