Oil and the Killing of the American Consul in Tehran
In the wake of World War I, British attempts to exclude American oil companies from Iraq and Persia caused serious strains in Anglo-American relations. In May 1921 an 'oil entente' was reached that granted American oil companies an 'open door' and 'equal opportunity' in Iraq, and in return America acknowledged British domination of Persia and monopoly of its oil. This entente was soon tested when Persians gave an oil concession to the Sinclair Oil Company of New York and tried to rid themselves of the recently installed Pahlavi dictatorship. It was in the midst of this unrest, in May of 1924, that American Vice-Consul Robert Imbrie arrived in…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7618-3505-9
- EAN: 9780761835059
- Produktnummer: 2380388
- Verlag: University Press Of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 550 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 550
Über den Autor
Mohammad Gholi Majd holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University. He is the author of The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919 and Iraq in World War I, both from the University Press of America.
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