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Nationalization of oil refinery at Abadan, Iran.
Major events of the year 1951. Nationalization of Anglo Iranian oil refinery at Abadan, Iran. Workers at the refinery. British action leads people to protest against Britain and other western democracies on streets in Iran. Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh (or Mosaddeq) takes the matter to the United Nations. Delegates of various countries at the meeting. The United Nations headquarters in New York, United states.
United States sends crop duster aircraft to combat a locust plague in Iran.
The United States sends aircraft to enable Iran to spray against a locust plague, in 1951. Iranian farmers are seen trying to cope with a plague of locusts, seen covering everytning in sight. The farmers chase them with cloths and use watering cans to dispense chemicals. A DC-4 transport aircraft taxis in after landing in Iran. The aircraft carries several small Piper Super Cub 135 airplanes and a croip duster, all equipped for aerial spraying. View of Piper Cub being removed from the DC-4. A bi-wing crop duster airplane being assembled. Several Super Cub aircraft flying low and spraying against locusts. (Note: The DC-4 aircraft is owned by United States Overseas Airlines, a non-scheduled air carrier based in Cape May New Jersey, that was contracted to combat the locust plague. The project was undertaken as part of President Truman's Point Four Program. approved by the United States Congress on June 5, 1950 in the Foreign Economic Assistance Act. )
Crowds protest outside the Baharestan (Iranian parliament building) in Iran.
Crowds gather with banners outside the Baharestan (Iranian parliament building) in Iran. A Muslim mullah and some men walk together during protest. Guards stand at the Majles Melli Entrance Gate in the Baharestan district Tehran. Guards form barricade during a protest in Baharestan square. Confrontation during protest as a Iranian official is helped through crowd. A mullah leads the protest. The Sepahsalar Mosque can be seen from a distance. Protesters outside the Baharestan parliament building. Protesters march holding flags and banners in Arabic. Possibly related to The Abadan Crisis, when W. Averell Harriman arrived in Tehran to negotiate in July 1951.
Oil refineries and systems to transport oil to ships in Iran seized from British under Iran nationalization
Clip slate reads, "Iran votes to seize vast British oil fields" (during nationalization of the Iranian oil industry.) View of British oil fields in Iran. Air view of an oil refinery. Oil wells. Barren mountain country of Iran. Oil trucks drive on roads cut in mountains. An oil well tower. Machinery being handled by hands. Oil wells and mountains. Large pipes between mountains for piping oil to coast. Oil being pumped in ships. Several ships at a harbor.
A British ship underway in sea off the coast of Iran during Iran nationalization of oil industry.
A British ship off the coast of Iran during crisis in Iran as it sought to nationalize the Iranian oil industry. The ship underway in sea. British flag on the ship. A man on the deck of the ship. A small boat near the ship.
W. Averell Harriman meets Shah of Iran and Prime Minister of Iran in Tehran
United States politician W. Averell Harriman and Mrs. Harriman sit with Iranian officer. Harriman and Henry Grady with escorts. Harriman ascends steps into building followed by Grady. Iranian flag on the building. Harriman and Grady greet Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. Harriman and Vernon Walters confer with Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran. Harriman and Grady walk by American flag flying from flagpole in garden.