Event

British pressure on Iran, 1951

Britain’s embargo on shipments to Iran from September 1951, and a proposal to occupy Abadan that Washington opposed.

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Abadan port where the AIOC laid off 20,000 oil workers Primary record 1
Abadan site of a proposed British occupation that Washington opposed, fearing partition of Iran Primary record 1
British government placed an embargo on shipments of steel, sugar, iron and oil-processing equipment to Iran Primary record 1
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company laid off 20,000 oil workers at Abadan, and the flow of Iranian oil to the world gradually stopped Primary record 1

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“Zendebad, Shah!”: The Central Intelligence Agency and the Fall of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq, August 1953 (CIA History Staff, Scott A. Koch), Central Intelligence Agency, 1998. Primary record
The AIOC laid off 20,000 oil workers at the port at Abadan
Fear of partition lay behind Washington's objection to the proposed British occupation of the port city of Abadan
In September 1951, Britain placed an embargo on shipments of steel, sugar, iron
The AIOC laid off 20,000 oil workers at the port at Abadan and Mossadeq had to put them on the government payroll. Gradually, the flow of Iranian oil to the rest of the world stopped.

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