Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rikicin Abadan babban lamari ne a tarihin Iran. Ya fara ne a 1951 tare da mallakar kamfanin Anglo-Iranian Oil Company da gwamnatin Iran ta yi, da kuma rufewa da Burtaniya ta yi na kamfanin Anglo-Iranian Oil Company na babban matatar mai a Abadan. Ya ƙare da nasarar juyin mulkin da CIA ta shirya
wanda ya hambarar da gwamnatin Mohammed Mosaddeq da aka zaba ta hanyar dimokiradiyya a 1953, kuma ya baiwa Shah damar yin mulkin kama karya na shekaru 26 masu zuwa, kafin juyin juya halin Iran ya hambarar da shi.