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

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unless mutually agreeable arrangements are made consistent
with the purpose and principle of the United Nations Charter.35

In reply to Sir Gladwyn
Jebb’s statement, Dr. Musaddiq said:

It is
gratifying to see that the European powers have respected the
legitimate aspirations of the peoples of India, Pakistan and
Indonesia, and others who have struggled for the right to enter the
family of nations on terms of freedom and complete equality… Iran
demands just that right.36

The petroleum industry has
contributed practically nothing to the
well-being of the people or to the technical progress or industrial
development of my country. The evidence for that statement is that,
after fifty years of exploitation by a foreign company, we still
have not enough Iranian technicians and must call in foreign
experts.37

The Iranian nation is
determined to use this vital resource, which
is part of its national patrimony, to raise its standard of living
thus to promote the cause of peace.38

With the
completion of the formal statements of Britain and Iran,
the debates in the Security Council during its next meetings were
concerned primarily with two issues; first, the determination
whether there was a dispute, and if so