British Diplomatic Oil Crisis: Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geopolitical Rivalries in the Persian Gulf: Drawing a Lesson? Or Sir Anthony Eden‘s Delusion of Grandeur.

No
further dealings were possible with Dr. Musaddiq and that future
negotiations would have to be conducted with a new Prime Minister;
in the meantime we should do what we can to weaken Dr. Mussadiq’s
position,22

Was the British Government’s
view.

Behind the scenes secret
activities were at work. British secret
agents had reported to London that there were many anti-Musaddiq
elements in Iran who, with encouragement, including cash, from
Britain, could bring Musaddiq down. Those who turned against Prime
Minister Musaddiq were the civil service, the Islamic leaders.
Musaddiq ‘was proposing, along lines laid down by the Tudeh party,
to nationalise businesses and enfranchise women; both anti-Islamic
moves’.23 Among others turning against
Musaddiq were the constitutionalists, and as was noted earlier on,
the army, landowners, merchants and politicians.

In the
earlier part of the book, I quoted from Benjamin Disraeli,
the Conservative Prime Minister, that ‘governments found most of
their legislation in the pigeon-holes of their predecessors.’
24 The seeds of the Conservative administration’s
policy towards Iran to protect British interests in regard to
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, as will be demonstrated later in
this chapter, were in fact planted while the Labour Party was in
office. An Assistant Under- Secretary who supervised economic
affairs, E.A. Berthoud, in June 1951, held discussions about the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s crisis with a Reader in Persian at
the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of
London, Ann K.S. Lambton. During the war, Ann Lambton had been a
press attache at the British Embassy in Teheran. As she had been
in Iran for a long time and knew

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