Word: mossadegh
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...Washington, Iran's Premier Mossadegh waited for somebody-the U.S. or Britain-to take him up on his own terms. So far as anyone could tell, Britain still hoped that the longer the waiting went on, and Mossadegh's troubles at home multiplied, the sooner would Mossadegh seek a way to get oil flowing to the West and money flowing into Iran's treasury. Iranian oil was trickling, but not to the West. Teheran announced that "with God's help," and no foreign engineers, it had started operating part of the Abadan refinery...
Churchill would accept such a scheme remained to be seen. But Mossadegh showed willingness to stay on in Washington to negotiate, and Anthony Eden, in his first act as Foreign Secretary, called home Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd from Teheran to talk things over. In Teheran, after the British elections, crowds tore down the street signs on Churchill Avenue. The government ordered them back up, and blamed the whole thing on the outlawed Communist Tudeh Party...
With Iran's oil flow shut off for the past three months, and his nation faced with economic danger, Mossadegh seemed willing to listen. He summoned. his top oil adviser, Kazem Hassibi, from Teheran. Said Hassibi, on arriving in New York: "My presence here is some indication that there might be a chance for a settlement. I hope...
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From the White House in Washington, Harry Truman, still playing host to Iran's Premier Mossadegh and trying to mediate the British-Iranian oil squabble, remembered to send "felicitations and sincere good wishes" to the Shah of Iran on his 32nd birthday...