It began in 1908 when William Knox D’Arcy struck oil in southwest Persia.
Exclusive extraction rights. Sixteen percent royalty—no Iranian permitted to audit the books.
Anglo-Persian Oil Company born.
Churchill called it “a prize from fairy land beyond our wildest dreams.”
The British government took 51% controlling stake in 1914.
The Royal Navy ran on it.
Britain’s 20th century standard of living was subsidized by Iranian wealth while Iranian workers lived without running water.
When Mossadegh nationalized in 1951, the system corrected.
Operation Ajax installed the Shah.
The MB —now designated T3rr0r1st organization—provided the street chaos then as they have in every managed conflict since.
When the Shah outlived his utility, the Ayatollahs inherited the franchise.
Same architecture.
Different management.
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