The timeline clearly shows that western intent has always been to control Iran for its natural wealth and strategic location controlling Hormuz. Why else did the US/UK coup Mossadegh? It was because he nationalised Iran's gas and oil industry. This isn't disputed by anybody. What makes you think the motive is any different this time? Why do you think the US and allies encouraged and armed Saddam Hussein's Iraq, including with chemical weapons,Iran's oil industry was nationalised in 1973 by the Shah (Six years before Khomenei's government)
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/21/archives/iran-formally-nationalizes-her-oil-industry-shah-says.html
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-government/iran-announces-nationalization-foreign-oil-interests
Its difficult to take you seriously when you get such basic historic info wrong.
? Do none of these facts come up in your analysis? They just don't mention it in the rags and bullshit that you read, do they Steve? So you consider it propaganda because it wasn't on the BBC or in the Express.
"Why do you think the US and allies encouraged and armed Saddam Hussein's Iraq, including with chemical weapons, in 1980 immediately after the overthrowing of the Shah and
full re-nationalision, again, of the oil and gas industry? Do none of these facts come up in your analysis? They just don't mention it in the rags and bullshit that you read, do they Steve?"
Are you claiming that the Shah "fully" re-nationalised the Oil and Gas industry? The arrangement that the Shah made was to simply make more of a cut and was in no way a full re-nationalisation. It is not disputed by anyone serious that the Ayatollah "fully re-nationalised" Iran's oil and gas industry.
"In 1954, the AIOC became British Petroleum. The return of the shah had not meant that British Petroleum was able to monopolise Iranian oil as before. Under pressure from United States, British Petroleum reluctantly accepted membership in a consortium of companies, founded in October 1954, to bring back Iranian oil to the international market. It was incorporated in London as a holding company called Iranian Oil Participants (IOP).[16][17] The founding members of IOP included British Petroleum (40%), Gulf (later Chevron, 8%), Royal Dutch Shell (14%), and Compagnie Française des Pétroles (later Total, 6%). The four Aramco partners – Standard Oil of California (SoCal, later Chevron) – Standard Oil of New Jersey (later Exxon, then ExxonMobil) – Standard Oil Co. of New York (later Mobil, then ExxonMobil) – Texaco (later Chevron) – each held an 8% stake in the holding company.[8][16]
All IOP members acknowledged that NIOC owned the oil and facilities in Iran, and IOP's role was to operate and manage them on behalf of NIOC. To facilitate that, IOP established two operating entities incorporated in the Netherlands, and both were delegated to NIOC.[16][17] Similar to the Saudi-Aramco "50/50" agreement of 1950,[18]
the IOP consortium agreed to share profits on a 50–50 basis with Iran, "but not to open its books to Iranian auditors or to allow Iranians onto its board of directors".[19] The negotiations leading to the creation of the consortium, during 1954–55, were considered a feat of skillful diplomacy.[8]In Iran, IOP continued to operate until the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The new regime of Ayatollah Khomeini confiscated all of the company's assets in Iran. According to the IOP's Web site: The victory of the Islamic revolution annulled the Consortium Agreement of 1954 and all regulations pertaining to it.
The revolution led to the withdrawal or expulsion of virtually all foreign employees from the oil industry with the new Iranian government assuming full control of its affairs.[20]
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