Haj Ali Razmara

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Major General Razmara

Sepahbod Haj Ali Razmara (1901 – March 7, 1951) was a military leader and Prime Minister of Iran.

Razmara was born in Tehran and studied at the military academy of Saint-Cyr in France and climbed his way up and eventually became Prime Minister in 1950.

He was assassinated by the Navab Safavi terrorist organization with 3 bullets in Tehran at the age of 49.

[edit] Anglo-Iranian Oil Negotiations

Ali Razmara came closer than any other prime minister to successfully ratifying the Supplemental Oil Agreement between Iran and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which would have improved the revenues paid to Iran by the company. The Supplemental Agreement drew the ire of most Iranians and Majlis of Iran deputies. because it provided less favorable terms than the Venezuela agreement between the Standard Oil of New Jersey and the Venezuelan government or the agreement between the Arabian-American Oil Company and the Saudi Arabian government, and because it still surrendered some control of Iran's national resources to a foreign company and country.

Razmara pressed the AIOC hard for better terms, and might have succeeded in bringing the Majlis and the company to a workable compromise.

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The following reference was used for the above writing:

"Iran in the last 3 Centuries" by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol1 ISBN 964-93406-6-1 Vol2 ISBN 964-93406-5-3
# Stephen Kinzer, All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 0-471-26517-9
# Mary Ann Heiss, Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954, Columbia University Press,1997, ISBN 0-231-10819-2
# Mostafa Elm, "Oil, Power, and Principle: Iran's Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath". Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8156-2642-8