Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te raru o Abadan he kaupapa nui i roto i te hitori o Iran. I tiimata i te tau 1951 me te whakamanatanga o te Anglo-Iranian Oil Company na te kawanatanga o Iran, me te kati a te Ingarihi i te whakangao hinu nui a te Anglo-Iranian Oil Company i Abadan. I mutu me te angitu o te CIA-whakahaere
i hinga ai i te kāwanatanga i kōwhiria ā-iwi a Mohammed Mosaddeq i te tau 1953, ā, i āhei ai te Shah ki te whakahaere ā-iwi mō ngā tau e 26 e whai ake nei, i mua i tana whakakorenga e te Iranian Revolution.