...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...

... nationalization and takeover of the Nationalist China joined in opposition, questioning why Brit- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the British resorted to ain considered the matter “a question of peace and security” legal maneuvering through international organizations. The when indeed the dispute was a matter...

... 3 resolve the oil issue between Iran and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). His eighty      doi Duke     by  © 2008...

... amounts of sulfur shipped from Texas before quickly learning to extract the necessary quantities from the hydrogen sulfide contained in Abadan's own refinery gases. 34 By the late 1930s, APOC—by this point renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)—was using large quantities of sulfur not only...

..., agreements be- large new pipeline would mean lower initial revenues tween the sponsor group and Azerbaijan, Turkey and for the Azeri government too, as the Azerbaijan Inter- Georgia signed in October 2000, and engineering national Oil Consortium (AIOC) has to recoup the studies just completed...

..., only one, the ment of State to entice American investors into the region Azerbaijan International Operating Consortium (AIOC) led and justify its own strategy there,25 the talk today is about only by British Petroleum, is currently producing considerable 18 to 34 billion potential barrels of oil...

... to be in Berlin at the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company [AIOC]) for a            Africa and the   that time and accepted the mission to go to better deal for Iran than the D’Arcy concession,       Middle East New York to open Iran’s stand in the interna- which, they argued, had been granted...

... Gharbxadigi’sillocutionary force. Company (AIOC) became the issue around which the National Front could rally the populace and through Notes which they could challenge foreign interests in Iran ’ The title of Al-i Ahmad’s work has been translated in a number of and confront the pro-Western m~narchyAs one...

... employee. The analysis focuses on terprise Royal Dutch Shell, and the Anglo-­Persian the following three scales: the urban, the architec- Oil Company (APOC, later AIOC and BP).1 Both tural, and the social. The urban scale refers to the GOC and APOC were instrumental in bringing...