Word: mossadegh
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...familiar deep voice of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh poured out from Radio Teheran one afternoon last week. For 90 minutes the wily old man rambled over the 19 months of Britain-Iranian oil negotiations, then reached his climax: "Iran has done her best, but the British government always obstructed a settlement. They [the British] have thus forced Iran to cut relations with them...
...long-expected rupture of diplomatic relations was here at last. Or was it? London had apparently already accepted it as inevitable. Replying earlier in the week to a note from Mossadegh demanding $56 million at once as his price for resuming stalled negotiations, the British called his demands "unreasonable and unacceptable." Then the British Foreign Office, in that final diplomatic gesture of despair, issued a white paper on Iran, to get its own side on the record. It spoke bluntly of Mossadegh's "inaccurate statements" and "misrepresentations...
...next move: kicking out the British chargé d'affaires. After all, some weeks before, the Iranian Foreign Ministry had borrowed from the British embassy library a book on the complicated protocol of severing diplomatic relations, and still had not returned the book. Soon it became clear that Mossadegh was stalling. He did not really want to break off diplomatic relations; he just hoped that the West (meaning the U.S.), shocked by his radio statement, would break down and come through with a good offer. It was the old Mossadegh game again: diplomacy by threat of suicide...
...warned Indonesia last year to work hard and attract foreign investors. He bluntly told the Iranians last month that they were "lazy," and repeated his injunction to work hard. Sometimes his pronouncements seemed a little hasty. ("I reached Teheran at 3," he said later. "At 5 I met Mossadegh. He showed me everything he wanted to consult me about...
...messier. It sweated out three separate negotiating missions, three offers for a settlement by the British and one by the International Bank, two sessions of the World Court at The Hague, one of the U.N. Security Council, three Iranian cabinets and uncounted buckets of tears from Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. Nothing worked. The U.S. intervened just enough to get stuck with a large measure of the blame for the mess, but not enough to clean it up. Washington did put some pressure on London to make concessions to the Iranians, but by & large the only U.S. policy throughout...