TEHERAN: Thousands of cheering, yelling Iranians stormed a police guard in front of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s offices in ...
Teheran today [June 21]. Hundreds broke into the Company’s building and ... ripped down a giant neon sign of the AIOC and threw it to yelling crowds below. Meanwhile, the Iranian GovernmentbegantakingovertheCompany’s installations in Southern oilfields... .
Premier Mohammad Mossadeq won a vote of confidence in his oil policy from Parliament today. All 91 Parliamentary Deputies present in the Chamber voted for him five hours after he had threatened ‘show your confidence or I will not be responsible’. Thousands of Iranians swarmed through the Capital’s streets breaking up Anglo-Iranian Oil Company placards and ...daubing new signs on trucks. Crowds roamed the streets carrying anti-British banners and tearing down Oil Company sign-boards. News agencies [As reported from Hyderabad,] pleas of the accused were recorded when hearing of the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case was resumed before the Special Tribunal today [June 21].
All the accused pleaded not guilty to the ...
charges levelled against them.