Chapter 674 – British-Iranian Settlement

When the outside world storm, Alan Wilson is also communicating with London, talking about the short-term settlement after the end of the filing, but also to win the support of other countries.

Eat alone before World War II, the British Empire is of course such a strength, but now is really not, this filing is, if this negotiation is successful, wait until the end of the short-term settlement program, the establishment of a comprehensive oil company bundled with European countries to replace the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

This one company could include France, Germany, Holland and Belgium, or even Portugal and Spain or even all European countries with common shareholdings, of course to be dominated by the UK. The current Iranian nationalization campaign, even if Britain ultimately wins, is enough to make other countries realize the vulnerability of Middle East oil.

In the face of this vulnerability, on the one hand, it is necessary to change the distribution of profits, and on the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the strength of their own side.

Britain could lead all European countries interested in securing oil by establishing an international consortium representing Europe to lead the establishment of the National Iranian Oil Company and operate this new oil company in the same way as Aramco.

The National Iranian Oil Company nominally gets access to all facilities, wells, and equipment, but the operating company has full exclusive access. The Iranian government reached an agreement with the international oil capital that the NIOC, as the owner, would hire an international oil consortium consisting of the UK, France and other European countries as contractors to control the production and marketing of Iranian oil.

The international oil consortium signed an agreement with the Iranian government that the international oil consortium would take over the oil exploration, production and marketing rights of the British-Iranian oil company and give half of the profits to Iran.

In this way Britain can tie up all the European countries and establish an oil system with Britain at its core. Once this system is established, now is only to Iran, later can be extended to all the Middle East oil-producing countries.

I do not dare to say that the petrodollar that has not yet appeared can be blocked, but through the bundling of oil interests, the United Kingdom is at least the status of the euro. In fact, the bottom line than the euro is much more than the euro, the latter part of the euro occupies the world share of settlement, not as much as the pound in nineteen fifty-two.

In the telegram Alan Wilson once again emphasized the importance of the Middle East, Whitehall gave a positive reply, and at the same time said that about the Middle East’s air transit station plan, Alan Wilson can talk to the local sheikhs, do not understand the place directly ask Barron.

For the former boss Sir Barron, this time can be said to be for the former assistant fast running out of legs. In New Delhi, he never imagined that one day, he and Allen Wilson’s role of the main guest is different, for each other to run before and after.

But fate is so wonderful, without the slightest doubt is that since the marriage, Alan Wilson’s career into the fast lane, more and more by the Whitehall look.

But Allen Wilson in front of the former top boss, or to express humility, the two dressed in Arab robes of the British once they met, both shocked by the other’s dress, can not help but openly laugh.

“How did it go with Mossadegh?” With a toss of his turban, Sir Barron inquired about his former assistant’s progress.

“Not a whole lot, hopefully it went well.” Alan Wilson shook his head slightly, cautiously expressing his expectation that everything would go well, turning to ask rhetorically, “Sir Barron, how is it going on your end, Whitehall has asked me to find out, but I don’t know how things are going. Much to ask for advice on.”

“Actually, London’s opinion is to merge our protectorates in the Persian Gulf into one nation, which in general is what I’m doing.” Sir Barron shrugged his shoulders and answered without hiding anything.

Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows, another merger? He had a deep feeling that the world did not exist in five hundred countries, and that Britain was largely responsible for the obsession with amalgamation.

From British India to British Malaya, the Commonwealth of British Central Africa, the Commonwealth of British East Africa. Britain has simply made a huge contribution to the unification of the world. Even when it has done so, it has been scolded as burying a thunderbolt on its way out, and sometimes Alan Wilson feels that the accusations suffered by Britain are very unjust.

Sir Barron’s leakage is that he hopes that the nine protectorate emirs of Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Dubai, Ras al-Khaimah, Ajman, Fujairah, and Umm al-Qaiwain will merge to become a united monarchy. Just as many of the sultans of British Malaya existed side by side.

Alan Wilson realized at once that this was not the United Arab Emirates. Bahrain and Qatar were among the earliest versions? That was surprising!

But if Qatar and Bahrain were also in it, and eventually this plan succeeded, Alan Wilson didn’t dare to imagine how rich this country would be in the future, almost taking up all the factors of a resource country that was lying down to make money.

“Whitehall’s air staging plan is a program to sustain British influence with these protectorates at its core.” Although Alan Wilson was dissatisfied with Britain’s habitual merger initiatives, an exception could be made for this program.

Each of these British protectorates is small in size, and even if they are all merged together they do not cover an area of 100,000 square kilometers. Compared to the neighboring Iran and Saudi Arabia, it is a very small country, but certainly the future is the richest country in the Middle East.

Alan Wilson even wanted to add Kuwait to the list, but considering the feelings of the Iraqi kingdom, it was better not to.

Soon he was uncharacteristically supportive of the merger plan and said it was time to talk about an air staging area. The construction labor was readily available, the industrial materials were supplied by British Malaya, and wasn’t the labor available in Pakistan?

“What a dedicated Commissioner you are!” Sir Barron had the sense to marvel at Alan Wilson’s dutifulness, why he was valued by Whitehall was evident from this matter.

“As long as the opportunity arises, we do not do naturally someone else will do.” Alan Wilson replied sincerely, “There is no shortage of peoples in this world who seize opportunities, it might as well be given to someone who is relatively reliable for Britain.”

He remembered when Korea started to take off in the sixties, as Japan was also peaking, Korea was left to do the bleeding and sweating and the Middle East was the main place to work in Korea.

At its peak there were with a million Korean workers working in the Middle East desert. Those people were working hard in the Middle East desert, in military-like camps. It is often said that the reason for the success of Korean companies is that Koreans are the only people in the world who can work for two years in a row in the middle of an exotic desert without alcohol and with military-like discipline.

The world is not devoid of peoples capable of suffering, and Allen Wilson didn’t want to wait for the Koreans to build the Middle East. He had British Malaya under his own administration to do that kind of work, and didn’t need a country with a U.S. military presence to help.

And in the long run, monopolies are never a bad choice for maximizing profits, and the fewer competitors the better. He even wants to press Japan, let alone one more South Korea.

“It seems like we should speed up the construction of the transit station. I think that place in Dubai would be good, right in the very center of Eurasia, perfect for it.” Alan Wilson discussed with Sir Barron, “Our relationship with Pakistan is pretty good right, talk to that side about having them provide workers and us provide industrial support to get the air transit station up.”

In fact, many of these now British protectorates have not discovered oil and gas resources, and while the world has – generally – recognized the Persian Gulf as an Earth refueling station, the attention is currently on Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, which are not small in size, like these pocket emirates that have not attracted attention.

Another factor is that these sheikhs are generally British protectorates, and the local British army acts as a hindrance.

On the location of Dubai as an air staging area, Alan Wilson and Sir Barron had a consensus and a joint report was written to London to formalize the location of the air staging area. Sir Barron traveled directly to Doha to prepare and enlist the support of these Emirs to finalize the matter.

Soon Mossadegh reappeared and negotiations began for a third time regarding the British and Iranian is there profit disagreement. Mossadegh made a new demand that the accounts of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company must be transparent to Iran.

Previously the British-manipulated Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had refused to allow others to audit its accounts, the Iranian government had no way of knowing if what Anglo-Iranian Oil was paying was as promised, and Britain’s intransigence had infuriated the Iranian public.

“No problem, it’s a very reasonable request.” Alan Wilson also wanted this conflict to end as soon as possible, the issue of accounts had been too small to be a problem.

On the third negotiation, Britain and Iran both took out the sincerity, one-third of the oil profit distribution plus the raw material support of the imperial preferential system, and at the same time, Britain also said that it would definitely Iranian government to maintain the transparency of the accounts.

Some good news, but also to the Iranian domestic, not all Iranians know, in the end what is the imperial preferential system. But by the British MI6 bribed will come up with a, ordinary Iranians can accept, and even feel excited about the explanation.

That is the system in which Britain’s vast colonies helped Britain’s economy take off, in which Britain could maximize production cost savings and make more products in less time than anyone else.

Once Britain opens up this preferential system to Iran, Iran can get the best products like Britain and spend the least amount of money to do things, which no amount of money can exchange.

Alan Wilson knows that with the current level of industry in Iran, joining up will only get you some benefits on the cost of raw materials. Not enough to form a competitive relationship with Britain. Iran would get the benefits, but it would bring greater benefits to Britain.

On June 26, Britain and Iran simultaneously announced that their differences over the current oil profits had been satisfactorily resolved. Mossadegh said it was a great victory for Iran and that prosperity was coming to Iran.

“Another one settled!” Alan Wilson looked at the signed joint statement and exclaimed that another problem had been framed.