Chapter 673 – Mixed Settlement

The anger on Mossadegh’s face flickered, and he heard Alan Wilson continue, “Don’t mind if it’s the Honorable Prime Minister, if it was a matter of the Mountbatten Petroleum Company, I would be able to make the endorsement right now. But when it comes to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which is not my wife’s property, I can’t sell out the empire’s interests in exchange for your gratitude on the personal front.”

One size does not fit all, if this matter had been between a private company and the Iranian government, Alan Wilson would have surrendered long ago by raising the French flag, and the biggest taboo for a private company is to confront a country.

Even if the opponent is a banana republic can not be guaranteed nine out of ten, not to mention that Iran is much stronger than the banana republic.

But the good thing is that Britain is prepared, Alan Wilson snapped his fingers, and Makins will take out a stack of documents. Among them are MI6 assessment, Iran’s current raw material gap data. Especially important to Iran’s livelihood materials!

And the latter day as or more serious, Iran’s cities and the vast countryside is completely two worlds. This round of sanctions on Iran has caused great damage, certainly Mossadegh is supported by the majority of Iranians, but Iran is definitely not to the point that Britain can not find agents.

Iran is also different from the Arab countries, which in the Middle East have monarchical families going back hundreds of years, and even if they were threatened with revolution, they could not be in worse shape than Iran.

There is absolutely no comparison between Iran’s Pahlavi dynasty and these countries and so on, more than a thousand miles away in terms of orthodoxy.

Morocco and Jordan are also secular and pro-Western, and they may not be free of the social problems that Iran has, but they are as stable as a rock, and have a long life without external forces.

The key is that Pahlavi’s father Reza Khan is really poor origin, when the British and Imperial Russia in Iran in the drawing of lines, the south to the British north to the Imperial Russia, Reza Khan is the Imperial Russia in the local organization of the Cossacks generals.

At that time, just in time for the collapse of Imperial Russia and the establishment of Soviet Russia, so a gap in the control of the situation in Iran, to 1925 before the establishment of the Pahlavi dynasty, Allen Wilson does not know the world, there is no younger than Iranian monarchies.

But the shortcomings of the Pahlavi dynasty are immediately apparent, Reza Khan came from a very low background, a military head, the biggest supporter of the Cossack regiment commanded back then.

Iran as a dynasty was unstable, and Mossadegh was surely aware of this fact, as Mossadegh and his party looked at the information.

Alan Wilson spoke up, “Prime Minister Mossadegh, I think that half of the profits, is embarrassing Britain. I have an alternative program here. You can try a new currency settlement system, so that on the surface Iran can’t get half of the share, but the actual benefit you get is not lower than half, and if we get a consensus on this, you can count on giving the Iranian people an explanation, and likewise our side can accept it, and the relationship between the UK and Iran can still be developed smoothly.”

“I wonder what Mr. Allen is suggesting?” Mossadegh took off his glasses and rubbed the corners of his tired eyes, he was deeply shocked by the statistics he saw for various industries, shocked because they were all true.

It can be imagined that the current Iran for Britain is completely no secret, the British on the actual situation in Iran than Iran’s own statistics are more accurate, understand so clearly can only mean one thing, Britain previously issued a threat to retreat to Iran to do it, is not an empty threat.

The current Iranian domestic pattern, is the Potsdam Conference decided, the Soviet Union in the north of Iran still exists in the influence. While Britain is in the south, the United States is in the deep plowing around Tehran, proper three-part world.

Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union are in the middle of the political situation in Iran, each other do not dare to make a move, the secret front of the addition of a moment did not stop.

This situation others do not know, Allen Wilson heart is the most clear, he personally betrayed Iran, but also taught the Soviets how to stuff the consulate thousands of people, the three countries in Iran’s interests entangled, but each other afraid to dare not do anything, how there is also a credit to him.

“I have a short-term program, Britain can sign a five-year short-term settlement program with Iran. And we can adjust the profit sharing of the British-Iranian oil company to thirty-three percent. The remaining seventeen percent to be supplemented by sugar, iron ore, cooking oil, and other commodities.”

Alan Wilson opened his mouth unhurriedly to expound, in a certain sense, his grandiose blueprint, since Iran did want to develop and needed these bulk commodity imports, and didn’t have enough foreign exchange of its own. Then join Britain’s imperial preferential system!

A major pillar industry in British Malaya is sugar, and Australia today the world’s best quality iron ore, in the hands of his wife, Pamela Mountbatten, as for other bulk commodities, the British colonies are vigorously developed, the same can be divided into Iranians some.

This set of programs is a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, the Iranian share to one-third, another aspect of the preferential treatment given to the Iranian British in the imperial preferential system above, to make up for the loss of Iran.

But on the surface Britain is still taking advantage of the big advantage, is considered in this conflict by the British a step down. And in reality the benefits Iran received were not small. No chance it’s more!

In fact, the quality of Iran’s iron ore is not low, than the United Kingdom China such as thirty percent of the quality of the iron ore is known as rich, but this time certainly did not find out, because the embargo initiated by the United Kingdom to the Iranian iron and steel suffered a huge blow.

Iran was dependent on imports of iron ore and Allen Wilson could have opened an opening for Australia to export iron ore to Iran.

A two-pronged approach with a one-third profit sharing and the benefits of the Imperial Preference System would, I believe, satisfy the Iranians.

“This kind of sneaky maneuver can be used when the civil servants get a pay rise.” Alan Wilson suddenly had such a flash in his mind while he was telling the program. Bringing the character into the position of cabinet secretary.

In fact, Alan Wilson really almost couldn’t resist bringing up the idea of the petroleum pound, but he had already submitted the idea to Whitehall long ago, and Whitehall had not moved, so there must be a reason for it.

He believed that Whitehall must know the value of the petroleum pounds, but at this time pretended not to have this matter, there must be other considerations.

To a large extent, countries and countries are competing with each other in terms of military power. The Soviet Union’s tanks and armored vehicles, calculated by the ten thousand, were always said to cost a lot of money. Whether or not it really cost a lot of money, Allen Wilson does not comment, he only knows that after all the steel of these leaders rusted, Russia would face endless humiliation from the United States.

It might get by a little better with these torrents of steel, without them it’s even close to losing its life.

Apparently Whitehall is afraid to push for an oil pound for fear that the current British military power won’t be able to keep the profits of the oil pound.

Feeling is probably the reason, Alan Wilson naturally does not mention the oil pound, or wait until the United States is full of confidence to find the next opponent, the United Kingdom in the consideration of the backstabbing to the rebellious son.

“A short-term program? Five years?” Mossadegh was silent for a long time and opened his mouth, “Thirty-four percent, I believe that Britain will not dwell on this point of concession, right, and I still have a doubt, I do not know what to do after five years?”

“Uh!” Alan Wilson actually did not think about it at all, and in his heart he sighed at how Mossadegh asked such a question, catching him off guard with a scenario that was completely based on stalling.

“If by the time we have the second talks, Iran recovers its share of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, it can consider listing in London to raise capital. Britain could have a position in the financial sector to help Iran.”

Although he was not prepared for the Mossadegh issue, Alan Wilson still showed that he was ready for it.

“Honorable Prime Minister, in fact, even according to the former treaty, by 1960, the time for the treaty will be up. Why should Iran be in a hurry?” Alan Wilson saw Mossadegh hesitating and launched into persuasion, “Iran does not give Britain time to adjust, Britain is damaged, Iran is the battleground for the United States and the Soviet Union, it is so difficult for you to drive out Britain, what leverage will you take to get the United States and the Soviet Union to leave when the time comes?”

In 1900, the British millionaire William Knox D’Arcy and the Shah of Iran, Muzaffaruddin Shah, reached an agreement on oil trade, the agreement stipulates that D’Arcy has the exclusive rights to oil exploration as well as exploitation in Iran, this agreement was signed for sixty years, and in 1960 Britain’s exclusive rights to oil exploitation expired.

On the one hand, Allen Wilson reminded Mossadegh to honor the treaty and that Britain would naturally do so when the time came. On the other hand a package was offered, such as the possibility of borrowing British influence to get Commonwealth countries to import Iranian oil.

“Australia has a great need for oil and Iran has a great need for iron ore, which are complementary. India is a huge market, and Britain can step in and talk to New Delhi to establish economic and trade relations between Iran and India.” Alan Wilson said bitterly, “There are many areas in which we can cooperate, don’t look at only one-third of the share, the expansion of the British-Iranian oil company can completely make up for the loss of Iran’s bright side, not to mention that you have no loss at all.”

“We need to think about it carefully.” Mossadegh was intrigued, but still didn’t agree right away.

“We are patient enough.” Allen Wilson didn’t press the issue, although he was very tempted to go to Cyprus right away to meet with General Mountbatten to talk about the Free Officers Organization and then go to Paris to shake his stick in his face.

After the second round of negotiations, Allen Wilson liaised with Sir Barron and decided to bar the direction of pressure to focus on Iran’s breaking of the treaty, making it clear that 1960 was when the treaty was due to expire, and also letting it be known that there had been some progress in the talks.

If the Mossadai show sincerity, the current disagreement over oil revenues can end peacefully.

Mossadegh was also using this time to calculate whether the fifty percent Iran was expecting could be achieved if Britain was willing to give Iran the concessions of the Imperial Preference System. The fake news of the Basra meeting continued to make the mood of the people who were eating it fluctuate.