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

discussion
of the question for ten days in order to allow time for
representatives of his government to reach New York from Teheran.

After having been mollified
by the suggestion of the representative
of China to allow the President of the Council discretion to call a
meeting earlier than ten days hence, the Iranian request was
granted, and the next meeting of the Council was scheduled for
October 11 at the latest. Subsequently, and after the last of the
British staff had been evacuated from Iran on October 1, the Iranian
delegate requested the President of the Council to postpone the next
meeting of the Council from October 11 to October 15.34

The request was granted.

At his arrival in New York,
accompanied by a large party of
senators, cabinet ministers and journalists, Dr. Musaddiq gave a
press conference at the airport, outlining the position he was going
to take at the Security Council. He blamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company for the backward state of Iran. He reminded the Americans of
their fight against British imperialism, and asked for their support
and goodwill.

In the meanwhile the
British delegation, by the course of events and
by the attitude of their colleagues on the Council, had been
persuaded to call merely for the resumption of negotiations, rather
than terms of their resolutions. The Security Council met on 15th
October, the British representative, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, made a brief
statement in explanation of his new draft resolution. He called,
just, for

the resumption of
negotiations at the earliest possible moment in
order to make further efforts to resolve the difference between the
parties in accordance with the principles of the provisional
measures indicated by the International Court of