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Blood & Oil - A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah (Paperback)
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Blood & Oil - A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah (Paperback)
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Loot Price R584
Discovery Miles 5 840
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Born into Iran's most powerful aristocratic family - so feared by
Khomeini that the entire clan was blacklisted - Prince Manucher was
raised in a vast harem with his thirty-five brothers and sisters,
one of whom married the head of Iran's communist party, while
another, who was once foreign minister, lost his life to the
upstart Shah's jealousy. Farmanfarmaian was the primary government
negotiator with the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company until
its convulsive nationalization by his cousin Mossedeq in 1951.
Later, as a director of the National Iranian Oil Company, he
pioneered - against the Shah's wishes - the partnership that
resulted in OPEC. This is the first account by one of OPEC's
original crafters of the politics and intrigue surrounding the
international development of the oil industry. With the flair of a
modern-day Arabian Nights, Blood and Oil brilliantly renders the
tensions between the excesses of the ancien regime and Iran's
increasingly reactionary religious establishment. Prince Manucher's
close relationships with everyone from the last Shah to the
teary-eyed Mossadeq allow him to provide a fresh portrait of the
Pahlavi reign and the revolution that brought it down. But the real
revelation in these pages is his new perspective on British oil
imperialism, and its brutal effect on twentieth-century history.
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