Word: khuzistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...share of a 25-75% split, will certainly affect the 50-50% deals that have been standard with British and most U.S. companies. Under Iran's $1.1 billion development program, made possible by oil revenues, regional schemes will supply irrigation, fertilizer, electric power and light industry. The ambitious Khuzistan project in southwestern Iran is under the able guidance of a U.S. firm headed by David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who pioneered TVA. The development plans are good, but their allotted revenues have sometimes been borrowed for other purposes, and the Shah himself wishes that there were more...
Tulips flashed from the mile-high meadows in Iran's Zagros Mountains. Through Do Polan Pass, heading north as they had each spring for generations, a band of Bakhtiari tribesmen rode from winter pasturage in Shiraz and Khuzistan to summer fields in Isfahan province. In their ankle-length gowns and brimless felt hats, they nimbly crossed rock-strewn slopes, driving herds before them. At Do Polan summit the brazen, electronic voice of the 20th century met the ancient, changeless East. Four loudspeakers placed around a neat white tent blared at the tribesmen: "Stop...
...Mossadegh in politics. Ayatulla Kashani is a zealot of Islam who has spent his life fighting the infidel British in Iraq and Iran. He controls the Teheran mobs (except those controlled by the Communists), and his terrorist organization assassinated Razmara. Hussein Makki controls the oil-rich province of Khuzistan, in which the Abadan refinery lies. When the British got out, Mossadegh put Makki in charge of the oil installations. Makki's view on oil: close up the wells, pull down the refinery and forget about it. Neither Makki, Kashani nor Mossadegh has ever shown any interest in rational plans...
Such an approach was pure demagoguery. Iran's poverty was more the fault of an inefficient government and an oppressive landlord system than of any foreign influence. The British could be blamed, however, for having failed to do something about inefficiency and oppression. For its workers in the Khuzistan fields, Anglo-Iranian has built model dispensaries, schools and recreation grounds, but it has made no effort to integrate itself in the life of the country. In 1951, swimming pools and flush toilets for the oil workers make a poor substitute for a long-term policy...