People during the first Pahlavi in close-up view

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Although the UK, through its ownership of the Anglo-persian Oil Company, controlled all of homeland’s oil resources, Rezā Shāh preferred to obtain technical assistance from Germany, France, Italy and other European countries. This created problems for homeland after 1939, when Germany and Britain became enemies in World War II.

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