The directors of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. meet in the cream-walled board room of London’s Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which ...

Over the mud flats of the Isle of Grain, 40 miles down the Thames from London, rose a strange new smell. It was the acrid odor of distilling oil from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.’s Kent refinery, which ...

Iran’s oil fields are the oldest in the Middle East. In 1901, Australian William Knox D’Arcy won a concession for what within a decade would become the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. As Persia changed its ...