Chapter 670 Britain and Iran negotiations

Before Alan Wilson and his party arrived, Princess Badia had already arrived in Basra, claiming to the public that she was, mediating this round of oil strife between Britain and Iran, a claim that, it must be said, was instantly accepted by the people of the Kingdom of Iraq.

“The Iraqis want to mediate our differences with Iran?” Alan Wilson had a look of having discovered a new continent, where did this Iraqi get his confidence? But then said, “Well, it’s not incomprehensible from Baghdad’s point of view. What we are most concerned about is still being able to have a good outcome.”

The Kingdom of Iraq is still the largest Christian country in the Middle East, and is considered the center of Christians in the Middle East. This is different from later times, when in fact the most likely victims of war for a country are the country’s minority communities.

In the case of Basra, which is still in the radiation zone of Iraqi Shiites, Allen Wilson, who arrived in Basra, visited a number of mullahs with a humble heart, on the one hand to express the intention to disturb, and on the other hand in the hope of obtaining a certain degree of convenience.

“Commissioner, are we going to do this?” Seeing that Alan Wilson was about to put on his Arab robes, Lord Makins’s of Sheffield, who had already come a step ahead of himself, asked with a constipated expression of doubt.

The scalp on the top of the head to support the right, and then put on the headband, to the mirror for a moment, Alan Wilson looked at the mirror in his own satisfied smile, “Makins, the Foreign Ministry to follow the customs of the country, since to the Arab place, to express the appreciation of the simplest way is to wear each other’s clothes.”

“Yes, do as the Romans do!” Makins looked with an odd face at Allen Wilson, who wanted to follow the customs, opened a bottle of champagne in front of his face, and did not forget to pour a glass for himself, full of amazement, “But as far as I know, the Arabs don’t drink.”

“No, the upper class Arabs drink, the so-called puritanical rules and regulations, are all for the better management of the population at the bottom, so that they follow the rules, so into the country at the same time, but also to add a little variation.”

Alan Wilson sipped a mouthful of whiskey, as if the spirit of an instant boosted a lot, continued, “And these Shiite religious leaders are not also help it, jointly issued an invitation to be considered for our solidarity, if Tehran can give a positive response, that is not a good thing? After all, Mossadegh is the prime minister of a country, if he can come in person, from the point of view of diplomatic reciprocity, we can’t let a prime minister come in person, unless Prime Minister Eidley can come in person.”

“Just an Iranian Prime Minister, letting our Prime Minister come in person?” Makins grunted lightly, his look indicating that this was a joke.

Makins idea is right, if it is before the second world war, on the level of Alan Wilson now, enough and Mossadegh himself for a meeting, not to mention the prime minister of the British empire, even the minister of the British empire do not need to show up.

But now is different, this time and another time, can not use the experience of the past set now. So Alan Wilson acquiesced to Princess Badia’s claim that the Kingdom of Iraq would mediate this disagreement over British and Iranian oil revenues.

This is completely impossible before, the Iraqi royal family are supported by the United Kingdom, it is like Su Yang to mediate the differences between Allen Wilson and Sukarno, it is a joke.

This Allen Wilson are too much some not enough, but also specifically visited the Shiite leaders in Iraq, let them borrow religious influence to facilitate Mossadegh personally over.

The reason for doing this is that Iraq is a Shia center, even though the current royal family of the Kingdom of Iraq is Sunni.

Don’t look at Iran as if it has a much larger Shia population, but the Shia holy cities, Najaf and Karbala, in addition to Medina in Mecca, which everyone knows, are all in Iraq.

The real Shiite break with mainstream Sunnis began with the martyrdom of Hussein, whose blood breathed new life into the Shiite faith, and who is buried in Karbala, Iraq.

The existence of these two holy sites, the two most important in the eyes of the Shiites, and the fact that several subsequent Shiite Imams lived in the Iraqi region for long periods of time where they wrote books and were buried, especially after Imam Ja’far founded the Shiite Ja’far school of jurisprudence, basically established the mainstream Shiite beliefs.

In terms of religious status, Iraq is many times higher than the status of Iran, Iran can hold up the Shiite flag, but also thanks to Saddam’s territory of the Shiite suppression of no respite, otherwise how can there be Tehran’s share of speech?

Allen Wilson is never what favorable conditions exist, with what favorable conditions, Iraq is the center of Shiite, then before the negotiations, he let the Shiite leaders in Iraq and their own stand together.

This also does not delay him personally in an Arab robe directly and Badia Princess around, for the next negotiations to make some preparations, in fact, Badia Princess is considered a good posture, in exchange for the first few years, then, Allen Wilson may think about it, there is no opportunity to get on the halal car, but now with the age of the increase in this aspect of the mind has been faded.

“I am very grateful to Your Highness for helping Britain in this matter, Pamela did not come this time, if she came, I expect that you should have a very common language.” Alan Wilson thanked with a smile, “Britain has always valued the Kingdom of Iraq’s unique position in the Middle East and is happy to see Iraq go into prosperity.”

“We can only give a platform, what can be achieved depends on Mr. Wilson’s ability.” Princess Badia looked at Alan Wilson in his Arabian robes with some amusement, “Mr. Wilson really embodies the flexibility of the British tradition.”

“Everyone says so.” Alan Wilson said with a toss of his robe, “I’ll take that as a compliment from the Princess.”

Given the climate of the Middle East, this time of the year was a scorcher, even for Alan Wilson, a longtime Kuala Lumpurite, which was mitigated a bit by the removal of the suit’s Arabian robes.

Britain, at the suggestion of the Kingdom of Iraq, in Basra, ready to start negotiations with Iran on the issue of oil distribution news. It was now a well known fact throughout Iran.

It was also known that both the Iraqi royal family and religious leaders had extended invitations to Mossadegh. Since the outbreak of the oil crisis, Iran has suffered from the British blockade of raw materials for more than a year.

And the share of oil that originally belonged to Iran is being rapidly replaced by Iraq, and cracks have appeared in Mossadegh’s alliance. Of course the UK can certainly rely on the Royal Navy, which still has strength at this time, to isolate Iran’s imports and exports, but it has not been spared verbal abuse for a year.

Now that each side has its own difficulties, it is actually more opportune to reopen negotiations.

With this in mind, Mossadegh, faced with an invitation from the Iraqi royal family and religious leaders, made the decision to personally appear for negotiations.

It was at this time that Alan Wilson made a public statement in Basra, “London is pleased that Iran has given a positive response to the negotiations. But regarding the previous move by Iran to seek support from other countries instead of the UK, London does not like it, it is never the UK that threatens other countries, no one can threaten the UK.”

Alan Wilson is in charge of the negotiations with Iran, but this oil crisis is not just about Britain and Iran; in Washington, the ambassador to the United States has the task of reminding the United States of Britain’s great help to the United States in the stabilization of the situation in Europe, especially when the Korean War is not yet over.

Not to mention that the Berlin Crisis has not ended until today, with the US on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other in a big war of words over Berlin. The wall in West Berlin is getting higher and higher every day, and the population fleeing out of West Berlin is continuous. On the other hand the Korean War is long overdue.

If the U.S. doesn’t support Britain in Iran, then the U.S., which is already tied up at both ends of the Eurasian landmass, will take advantage of the situation if the Soviet Union takes advantage of the situation in Iran? You can think for yourself what the consequences would be!

In 1945, the United States might still consider who was the greater threat, Britain or the Soviet Union. But in 1952, the United States already knew very well that the Soviet Union was definitely a greater threat than Britain. Even now Britain’s power is still there!

The ambassador to the United States bluntly told the United States that if the United States did not support Britain on the Iranian issue, then Britain would not support the United States on either the Berlin issue or the Korean issue.

Having gotten the telegram from the ambassador to the US, Allen Wilson waited quietly for Mossadegh to come to the door after getting the US understanding of Britain’s stance.

Just then, Alan Wilson received a telegram from his wife, Pamela Mountbatten, from Paris, the first thing was that General Mountbatten had been confirmed for the end of the month, and the other thing had to do with Turing, who had been arrested by the police.

“My God!” Received a telegram Allen Wilson, from between the lines in the middle of one thing, that is, his wife’s suspicion of his own, and immediately called back to accuse his wife of whimsicality, saying that if he was not immediately to negotiate with Iran, then, must now take a plane back to beat her ass.

Now was not the time to dwell on such unexplained trivialities; he personally had negotiations with the Iranians. Turing’s matter, Pamela Mountbatten first put things down, it is best to bail out Turing himself in saying.

“What’s so strange about this, there are homosexuals inside Whitehall, and didn’t see anyone making a fuss. Turing the man is rather wooden, you bail the man out first dear, the rest can be dealt with slowly, and in doubting me, I’ll go back and have a shaking stick in your face!”

Covering her face, Pamela Mountbatten looked at the revealing description on the telegram, her heart could not be calm for a long time, and decided that it was better to bring Turing out of the police station in the first place.

She is also regretting, how can you suspect that your husband has a problem, obviously on that kind of thing fancy so much, how to think it is impossible.

The end of June, the Middle East is very concerned about the British-Iranian negotiations, with the arrival of Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh in Basra officially started.