Pictures of Abadan in 1951

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The AIOC was nationalized by the persian Parliament in March 1951. In Iran this was enormously popular and seen as a long overdue staunching of the bleeding of its national wealth which could now be harnessed to fighting poverty in homeland. In Britain, the nationalisation was widely seen as an intolerable breach of contract or theft.

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