Muzzaffar al-Din Shah became the successor of the throne after the death of his father and the nearing end of the Tobacco Revolt. Muzzaffar al Din Shah was a leader who ignored the plea of his people whom only wanted an improved Iran society. Only upsetting his people, even more, the Shah, later on, gave rights to a London-based financier, William Knox D’arcy, “special and exclusive” privilege to exploit and sell natural gas for sixty years since 1901. (pg 33). After signing the exclusive agreement, D’arcy worked with a petroleum engineer named George Reynolds in order to search and drill for oil. However, when oil was found, the well ran dry which caused D’arcy to sell his rights to the Burmah Oil Company. D’arcy’s hopes eventually slipped
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Iran workers for the oil company began to notice the reduced pay and Britain began sending warships to scare Iran which created tension between the two countries. Oil was one of the imperial country’s most valuable assets and refused to give up on the situation so easily. “He described as Anglo-Iranian as a crucial asset to the west ‘not only because of its magnitude as an element of our balance of payments… but also because of the power it gave us to control the movement of raw materials.’ Iranian oil was vital ‘to our common defense,’ and losing it would cripple ‘our ability to rearm.’” (pg 90). Once, Mossadegh became prime minister of Iran, Britain immediately tried to devise a plan to overthrow him. Mossadegh was so certain that foreign power was the source of Iran’s troubles and Iranians were not going to back down of pulling their country away from Britain’s grip. “There is no doubt Iranians are ready to make sacrifices in oil income to be rid of what they consider to be British colonial practices” (pg 107). Later on, Britain began to come up with tactics to show Iran that their economy would fail if the small country did not cooperate with them. “On August 22 the British cabinet imposed a series of economic sanctions on Iran. They prohibited the export of key British commodities, including sugar and steel, to Iran; directed the withdrawal of all British personnel from Iranian oil fields and all but a “hard core” of about three hundred administrators from Abada; and blocked Iran’s access to its hard currency accounts in British banks” (pg. 110). British tried to break Iran’s country down, however, Iran was so positive and strong on their nationalist stance that their hope for being in control of their country gave them the power to withstand everything Britain was trying to throw at the fighting country due to oil. “The government of the United Kingdom has made abundantly clear
Iran workers for the oil company began to notice the reduced pay and Britain began sending warships to scare Iran which created tension between the two countries. Oil was one of the imperial country’s most valuable assets and refused to give up on the situation so easily. “He described as Anglo-Iranian as a crucial asset to the west ‘not only because of its magnitude as an element of our balance of payments… but also because of the power it gave us to control the movement of raw materials.’ Iranian oil was vital ‘to our common defense,’ and losing it would cripple ‘our ability to rearm.’” (pg 90). Once, Mossadegh became prime minister of Iran, Britain immediately tried to devise a plan to overthrow him. Mossadegh was so certain that foreign power was the source of Iran’s troubles and Iranians were not going to back down of pulling their country away from Britain’s grip. “There is no doubt Iranians are ready to make sacrifices in oil income to be rid of what they consider to be British colonial practices” (pg 107). Later on, Britain began to come up with tactics to show Iran that their economy would fail if the small country did not cooperate with them. “On August 22 the British cabinet imposed a series of economic sanctions on Iran. They prohibited the export of key British commodities, including sugar and steel, to Iran; directed the withdrawal of all British personnel from Iranian oil fields and all but a “hard core” of about three hundred administrators from Abada; and blocked Iran’s access to its hard currency accounts in British banks” (pg. 110). British tried to break Iran’s country down, however, Iran was so positive and strong on their nationalist stance that their hope for being in control of their country gave them the power to withstand everything Britain was trying to throw at the fighting country due to oil. “The government of the United Kingdom has made abundantly clear