Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period of the Russo-German Pact. Most of Russia's 210,000,000-barrel annual production was desperately needed at home. It is for these fields that Hitler is driving, presumably because he feels that they would be more practicable for German use than those of Iran and Iraq. But, should he get them and get them intact, he would still have the problem of organizing a 2,500-mile transportation line before he could use the oil against Britain, a problem more difficult than that of the U.S. in getting oil from the Gulf of Mexico...
...campaign to achieve all these desirable things sounded like the popping of a little corn. Down either side the Caspian came the Cossacks-horsed, mechanized and propellered. Their western column rapidly took Tabriz; their eastern the port of Bandar Shah (see map). To the south the British crossed from Iraq and made sure of the richest single oil field in existence; their warships in the Persian Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest...
This week the most belligerently neutral country of Asia was neutral no longer. For 15 years Iran's Reza Shah Pahlavi had successfully played off British, Russian and other European interests against each other, but now Britain and Russia were working together. Into Iran from Iraq in the west marched a British column. More British troops landed at Bandar Shahpur, southern terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway. To the north Red Army troops began their long trek through the mountains into Iran from Russian Armenia. In India's northwest province of Baluchis tan other British forces stood ready...
...British and Russians, the case of Iran was open & shut, like the cases of Iraq and Syria. At all costs the way to India must be shut, Iran's oil fields and the road to Russia kept open. This week, with armies, they began making sure...
Nonetheless, Teheran and Tabriz, the Shah's second city, are reported swarming with Nazi secret operatives ("spending millions of pounds" say the Russians), who have filtered in from Iraq, Syria and Ethiopia. They are accused of gunrunning, blackmailing and bribing Iranian officials, conducting training schools for spies to work in India and the Near East...