OIL CRISIS IN PERSIA

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26528, 17 September 1951, Page 7

OIL CRISIS IN PERSIA

Mr Harriman Again Intervenes

® tc -11 p.m.) w WASHINGTON, September 15. Averell Harriman (Mr Truman’s wcial adviser) has written to the lytatan Prime Minister (Dr. Mussa{rU *n a renewed effort to end the *«sian oil crisis. . Mr Harriman has also held up de°f Dr. Mussadiq's ultimatum S, 1° resume the suspended- ™ talks or face the expulsion of 350 or T ” e r nationals. vc • Teheran. Persia’s ban on con°f sterling into rials by the JJ£°-Iranian oil company has been Persians prohibited the conjrs’on of sterling into rials as a fgr the British ban on the ’ersion of Persian sterling balances dollars. Teheran Radio announced last ir 4 Persia had signed an agreer* at 1 with Afghanistan for the sale ’’Oil. This i» the first oil transaction Ranged since the nationalisation of “*Soil industry in Persia. n. 1 , e announcement, which said that .Ppa had agreed to sell 30,000 tons yrefined oil products, 7000 tons of 2“ od and 88.000 gallops of aviation confirmed unofficial reports of tagtanber 18. » oil f°r which Afghanistan is to £1.250.000 sterling, will be deSyed to the Persian border town of “sp Qala. •(Bje British Prime Minister (Mr gW said to-day that Britain had guaranteed enough motor petrol up until the end of the next J®- The British Government hoped friendly relations with but the Persian Government ■gw* realise that delay would cost ••rxets for its oil.