PERSIAN OIL DISPUTE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27131, 29 August 1953, Page 7

PERSIAN OIL DISPUTE

Talks With Britain To Be Resumed

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;(R« 1130p. m .) CAIRO, August 28. The Cairo newspaper “Al Miwi” , I . , that the Persian Prime Minister (General ZahediT had announced that he would hold oil talks with Britain in the second half of September. * th

In an interview with a special corrcsnondpnf of pi.per in Teheran, General Zahedi saidl thenegotilt ons w7h Britain would be conducted on the basis of the Persian oil SS’S'X'Sb" 1 "'" ““ '" UM h '-£

In London, an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company spokesman

General Zahedi told the correspondent that Persia would continue its policy of supporting Arab-Islamic causes He sa d the ft— MgrU w.. among mombor, „ r llle A ;„" A “aJ rE^.a"S. he ™""‘ “• M ”“““ We

Mr .Ayatullah Kashani, Persia’s P™ erful Moslem leader, whom thl correspondent also interviewed, said ne opposed the restoration of dioloith Britain. He British politicians are not well intentioned towards us. They also have no feelings of friendship for

Britain s oil dispute with Persia beaL end of December, 1950, General Razmara’s Government withdrew from the Majlis a supplemental oil agreement with the AngloIranian Oil Company after an investigating commission had given an unfavourable report. General Razmara, who supported the agreement, was assassinated on March 7, 1951 —a prelude to the assumption of power by Dr. Mussadiq. - .Two days after the assassination, the Majlis oil commission voted for the nationalisation law, which the Shah signed in May, 1951. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s British staff withdrew from Persia in October, 1951. and the company’s oil refinery at Abadan passed to Persia’s control.