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

overthrown.
Britain achieved her objective. The British line from the start
of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s crisis was to bring down the government
of Dr. Musaddiq. Chapter Five demonstrated that the plan to overthrow the
government of Dr. Musaddiq was in fact drawn up while the Labour Party was
in office in 1951. The British Government’s view in 1952 when the
Conservative Party was in power was to weaken Musaddiq’s position by any
means.

The
blockading of Iranian oil, and the economic sanctions by Britain led to
economic crisis in Iran, which eventually in turn led to the Iranian
Communist Party giving support to the government of Dr. Musaddiq. This in
turn led to the shifting of the United States’ policy to the British policy,
which had been from the start the removal of Dr. Musaddiq’s government.
Therefore, it could be said that the British policy of economic sanctions
and blockading Iranian oil acted as a prelude to bringing the United States’
policy towards the British policy, to overthrow the government of Dr.
Musaddiq.

The British
policy of co-operation with the United States to topple the
government of Dr. Musaddiq, however, as was said in Chapter Six, resulted in
offering the Americans a share in Iranian oil. Despite the United States’
fear of a communist takeover in Iran and protection of rich Iranian oil
reserves, they still wanted a share in Iranian oil as the price for their
services.

In 1954 the
United States participated in the new oil consortium. The United
States acquired a considerable share in Iranian oil or what had been, the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, the main British interest in the Persian Gulf.
Apart from participation in the new oil consortium, the United States
clearly moved in to the British sphere of influence.

In the
aftermath of the nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company,
the main British interest in the Persian Gulf, the British Government sought
to safeguard the national interest of Great Britain, access to the oil
reserves, and

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