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...wild man of Iranian politics, Mohammed Mossadegh, nationalized his country's oil industry and started his country on the road to economic and political ruin. Undoing the mischief and getting the disputants back together took skilled diplomacy. Iran's young Shah and his strongman Premier, General Fazlollah Zahedi, had to operate in an ugly, xenophobic climate created by demagogues and Communists. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (owned 53% by the British government) was unwilling to assent to any agreement that seemed to reward illegal seizure, for fear of the effect it would have on other Middle East rulers...
...business partner of the West again, and might soon become a military ally. The long and acrimonious Anglo-Iranian oil dispute was so close to settlement that Iran's top negotiator announced: "There is nothing important left which could produce a deadlock." And last week Premier Fazlollah Zahedi, Iran's soldier strongman, who arrested his nation's decline from Mossadegh to Moscow, indicated that he was prepared to steer his country away from its classic anxious neutrality...
...group of Teheran editors summoned to his home, Zahedi said: "Recent events have made all of us realize that it is an absolute blunder in international conflicts to remain aloof from the course of world events. These days, no country can live in isolation. We have witnessed how aggressors have wantonly occupied neutral countries . . . We have to increase national resistance to all [such] aggressors...
Although General Zahedi had mentioned no nation by name (he has to get his people, so violently anti-British until recently, used to the idea), and had made no specific pledge, there were signs that Iran may be drawn into some such U.S.-sponsored defense arrangement as the Turkey-Pakistan pact. A month ago Russian Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev accused Iran of discussing a mutual defense agreement with the U.S. and sharply warned the Zahedi government against doing so. Iran replied that it would join any bloc it deemed necessary to its own defense. Those were audacious words to deliver...
...Iran on a 50-50 basis, a similar arrangement to that in other Middle East oil-producing countries. Revenue to the bankrupt Iranian government could amount to as much as $75 million in the first year, rising to $190 million annually by the third year. (The U.S. has given Zahedi's government $60 million to sustain it until the oilfields and refineries resume production...