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...bucket-seated C-47, its U.S. Air Force insignia still showing faintly through a poor Iranian paint job, settled to the landing strip at Masjid-i-Sulaiman last week and rolled up to the hangar line. Out stepped Hussein Makki, firebrand of Iran's three-man Oil Liquidation Board, for a look at what an oilfield is like...
Crowds yelled "Ahy Makki" ("Oh, you Makki"). A man with a butcher knife slit the throat of a trussed-up bull to show that Makki was truly welcome. Makki, briskly stepping over a pool of blood, got into a baby blue Oldsmobile convertible. Drums began to pound and blood crimsoned the car's whitewall tires...
...Iranian Senate. "The British," the Premier complained, "agree only to some form of nationalization. How can we consider the question solved?" Mossadeq's position was still that Britain must unconditionally accept the principle of Anglo-Iranian's nationalization. "We have burned all bridges behind us," cried Hussein Makki, secretary of the commission to take over the oilfields. "Either we shall reach our goal ... or we shall be destroyed, and the world with...
Just when it looked as if no common ground could be found, Anglo-Iranian agreed to send representatives to Teheran for "full and frank discussions." Firebrand Makki cooled off a few degrees, called Anglo-Iranian's gesture "satisfactory." The government was reported ready to postpone the actual take-over of Anglo-Iranian, pending the talks...
Last week Hussein Makki, the Prime Minister's right-hand man, took foreign correspondents in Teheran on a tour of the "Pit," a slum of caves and crumbling hovels-all caused, he said, by British exploitation of Iran's natural resources. Oil nationalization was served up to both Iranians and foreigners as a magic cureall...