Anglo-Iranian
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The history of the company we now call BP has, over the last 100 years, traced the arc of transnational capitalism.

Its roots lie in the early years of the twentieth century when a wealthy bon vivant named William Knox D’Arcy decided, with encouragement from the British government, to begin looking for oil in Iran.

He struck a concession agreement with the absolute Iranian monarchy, using the proven expedient of bribing the three Iranians negotiating with him.

Under this contract, which he designed, D’Arcy was to own whatever oil he found in Iran and pay the government just 16% of any profits he made — never allowing any Iranian to review his accounting.

After his first strike in 1908, he became sole owner of the entire ocean of oil that lies beneath Iran’s soil.

No one else was allowed to drill for, refine, extract, or sell “Iranian” oil.

“Fortune brought us a prize from fairyland beyond our wildest dreams,” Winston Churchill, who became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911, wrote later. “Mastery itself was the prize of the venture.”

Soon afterward, the British government bought the D’Arcy concession, which it named the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

It then built the world’s biggest refinery at the port of Abadan on the Persian Gulf.

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain’s standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran.

The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.

In Iran, nationalism meant one thing: we’ve got to take back our oil.

Driven by this passion, Parliament voted on April 28, 1951, to choose its most passionate champion of oil nationalization, Mohammad Mossadegh, as prime minister.

Days later, it unanimously approved his bill nationalizing the oil company. Mossadegh promised that, henceforth, oil profits would be used to develop Iran, not enrich Britain.

The Mega Giants in the oil industry in the United States were unhappy with the financial losses that was expected to produce a Trillion dollars with the British Petroleum (BP) oil industry and European distribution.

So in the grief of losing a trillion dollar industry in Iranian oil and control the UK MAJESTY / British Elite’s with MI6 make plans with the CIA to over thrown the New Leader of Iran …

Mossadegh

CIA front man Kermit Roosevelt Middle East bureau Chief is sent into Iran with 1,000,000 $$ dollars, ($12 million in today’s money), in US tax paper money and meets CIA officers and several Iranian politicians who have given been corrupted by MI6 and CIA operations.

Together with Roosevelt they go through the country and bribe politicians, clerics and powerful leaders to start rumors about Mossadegh and at the same time Iranians are paid to stage attacks (false flags events) against the local religious leaders and groups and the attacks are pointed at Mossadegh as his regimen and blamed for the orders, attacks and killings.

With time the CIA creates a huge massive civil unrest and distrust through the Iranian country and at the same time the CIA brings weapons into Iran enough to create a 10,000 guerilla army which causes chaos through Iran and buildings, shops burn down, a colour revolution (CIA MI6 > COUP) begins and paid demonstration using students begin.

A bloody COUP happens and the IRAN leader Mossadegh is arrested and charged with treason.

And the previous leader of IRAN Mohammed Reza Pahlavi is re-installed by the U S. CIA and MI6.

Reza reopens the oil fields to the United States and Britain