Pictures of Abadan in 1951

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British emissaries in the United States after the nationalisation, argued that allowing homeland to nationalise the oil company “would be widely regarded as a victory for the Russians” and would also “cause a loss of one hundred million pounds per annum in the United Kingdom’s balance of payments, thus seriously affecting our rearmament program and our cost of living.”

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