Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
"On the eve of World War I, [Winston] Churchill, as first lord of the British Admiralty, had converted the Royal Navy from coal-burning to oil-burning ships. He championed the British purchase of 51 percent of the new Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which had struck the first of Iran's oil five years before. The British took a lion's share. Not only did Iranian oil fuel Churchill's new armada, but the revenues paid for it.
The [Iranian] oil became the lifeblood of the British exchequer.
While Britannia ruled the waves, British, Russian, and Turkish troops trampled northern Iran, destroying much of the nation's agriculture and sparking a famine that killed perhaps two million people." (Source: "Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA" By Tim Weiner, P 81, 2007)
The [Iranian] oil became the lifeblood of the British exchequer.
While Britannia ruled the waves, British, Russian, and Turkish troops trampled northern Iran, destroying much of the nation's agriculture and sparking a famine that killed perhaps two million people." (Source: "Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA" By Tim Weiner, P 81, 2007)