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Chapter 3 The grace of Allah – Oil boom (4)
067 The dawn of oil industries in the Middle
East (4/4)
There was a
person in Iran who confronted with Seven Sisters. His name was Mohammad Mossadegh.
He became prime minister in 1951 and nationalized the oil company owned by
Anglo Iranian Oil. As a counter measure, Seven Sisters kicked out the Iranian
crude oil from the international market. US government, which disliked
nationalist Mossadegh, supported Seven Sisters behind the scenes. Prime
Minister Mossadegh was fell down. Reza Shah Pahlavi again gripped the power.
After that Iran and US started the honeymoon relationship.
It took nine years
that oil-producing countries challenged against Seven Sisters. They organized the
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) in 1960. And then after 28
years, Iran and the United States severed diplomatic ties when Ayatollah Khomeini
took the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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