چکیده:
The attempt to obtain the concession for northern oil was one of Iran's oil challenges from 1300 to 1303 SH (Solar Hijri). Although it was a conscious effort to bring America into the economic-political scene of this country and reduce the pressure from the Soviet Union and England, it ended in failure like other Iranian efforts. Various factors influenced the failure of the northern oil contract which, from a macro perspective, can be divided into internal and external factors. The opposition of countries such as England and the Soviet Union is considered an external factor. Investigating these factors is not included within the framework of this writing, and only one of the internal factors—namely the influence of Soleiman Mirza in the concession process—will be examined here.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The progress of negotiations with the Sinkler Company and the removal of Standard Oil from the concession, which was considered a great victory for Nosrat al-Dawla Firuz and Qavam al-Saltaneh, prompted Suleiman Mirza to engage in obstructionism regarding this matter.
In any case, Suleiman Mirza's intention was not to grant the concession of all five northern provinces to domestic capitalists, but at least to assign the concession of one province to them, as he considered this "encouraging domestic capitalists"5; however, Qavam al-Saltaneh deemed these remarks imprudent and said that the government, based on the Majlis vote regarding five, or rather four provinces, had negotiated with American companies, and undoubtedly, a change in the government's position on this matter would cause the Americans to be suspicious of the government's words6.
Qavam al-Saltaneh, having realized the obstructionism of the parliamentary minority led by Suleiman Mirza Eskandari, and due to the aforementioned agreements with the Sinclair Company, finally assigned the oil concessions of the five northern provinces, except Gilan, to the American Sinclair Company on December 3, 19224, and on January 2, of the same year, in a letter to Motamen al-Molk (Speaker of the Majlis), requested that he hasten the approval of the government's proposed bill.
Based on his manifesto and in alignment with Soviet policy, Suleiman Mirza should have supported the Sinclair Company rather than Standard Oil1 and should have maintained a consistent and steadfast approach during the process of raising the northern oil issue, such that his views would not change with the coming and going of cabinets, and he would continuously oppose granting this concession to the capitalist country of America; however, this never happened.
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