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

undermined the
West’s and America’s moral position over Hungary. India, for
example, said that between Hungary and Suez there was nothing much
different.

Eden was
right in his view that the Iranian crisis was the most difficult he
had faced so far, but his appreciation of its implications just did not go
far enough. The ‘lesson’, such as it may have been, of Suez might – in large
part it seems safe to say – have been learned from the episode of the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company that preceded it.

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