Anglo-Persian Oil Company
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The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Persia. The British government purchased 51% of the company in 1914
The former Anglo-Persian Oil Company building (now Foreign Ministry No. 3) in Tehran
William Knox D'Arcy negotiated rights to prospect for oil in most of the Iran territory.
Workers of the APOC in 1908
Indian soldiers march into the Abadan Refinery, Operation Countenance, 25 August 1941
Mohammad Mosaddegh
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Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923
Mosaddegh in 1951
Mosaddegh's uncle Abdol-hossein Mirza Farman-Farma and mother Princess Malek Taj Najm-al-Saltaneh
Young Mosaddegh
Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farman Farma, 11th Prime Minister of Iran(1915-1916) and Mossadegh's maternal uncle