La búsqueda de petróleo por parte de Gran Bretaña conjuntamente con el abogado inglés William Knox D’Arcy en Irán,  los injustos acuerdos de extracción, y el posterior golpe de estado, formaron un escenario en la industria petrolera cuya consecuencias son obvias, creo que, para todos.  Les recomiendo este super interesante artículo, publicado en Adbusters, por Cecil de Jones (el artículo está en inglés).

I had been sitting in my solitary cell as a hostage for about a year, when one day the cell door opens, and there is standing one of the hostage takers, one of my jailers. And all of my rage and my fury built up over one year sitting in that cell just burst out, and I started screaming at him, and I was telling him, ‘You have no right to do this! This is cruel, this is inhumane! These people have done nothing! This is a violation of every law of god and man! You cannot take innocent people hostage!’” He said, “I went on like this for several minutes. When I was finally out of breath, the hostage taker paused for a moment, and then he leaned into my cell and said, in very good English, ‘You have no right to complain, because you took our whole country hostage in 1953.