Ayatollah Kashani & Dr.Mosaddegh

If not for scholars, religious motivation, the oil industry would not be nationalized in Iran

On the issue of the nationalization of oil industry, it was again the clergy who played a leading role. You should be sure that if it had not been for Ayatollah Kashani, the issue of the nationalization of the oil industry would not have been developed at all. Of course, as they say, "Some people use the salt, but they break the salt shaker," [they are ungrateful]. They are benefitting from the oil movement, but they insult the late Ayatollah Kashani.--This was while he played a leading role in it. If it had not been for him, the issue of the nationalization of the oil industry would have definitely not reached any place in this country.

Nov 8, 2006

If it had not been for ulama and religious motivation, the nationalization of the oil industry would certainly not have moved forward. Everyone should come to realize this. Ayatollah Kashani provided the introduction to this movement; and his supporter was a Marja taqlid, the late Sayyid Mohammad Taqi Khansari, in Qom.

The promoters of this thought were a group of people in Qom and a religious scholar, a first-tier Minbari, and an outstanding religious, eloquent and intellectual activist in our Mashhad. These were the promoters of that national movement. And the people entered the arena because of religion. Later on, when they separated Ayatollah Kashani from the movement, isolated ulama and put religious personalities aside, Mosaddeq was defeated. As long as religion and religious faith were in the arena, the movement was progressing. However, when this element was taken away from it, the movement stopped, it was defeated and the opposite happened. An American with a suitcase full of money came to Tehran and disrupted everything. 

Jan 8, 2017 

Our oil was in the hands of the English. The demand of the movement for nationalization of the oil industry was to take away the privilege of the English. We wanted to have control over our own oil resources.--This was not an extravagant demand. Of course, it was important, but it would not lead to the total independence of the country.

During that movement, the people stepped into the arena just like they did during the Revolution and certain events took place, but the movement did not last more than two or three years. The movement was alive for only two, three years. The enemy managed to suppress the movement and put an end to it. After the movement had been suppressed, the terms of the contract with the English were made even worse for Iran. That is to say, the agreement that was reached after the events of the 28th of Mordad was much worse than the agreement that had been reached earlier. If the oil industry was in the hands of the English before the movement, afterwards it passed into the hands of the English as well as the Americans. Our oil resources were in the hands of our enemies, and these conditions did not change until the victory of the Revolution. The goal of the Islamic Revolution was not just to nationalize the oil industry. The Islamic Revolution was after total independence: political independence, economic independence, cultural independence. The Islamic Revolution started with these slogans; it was not comparable with the movement for nationalization of the oil industry. The nationalization movement did not last long. In contrast, the Islamic Revolution achieved victory and permanence.

Jan 9, 2016

 

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  • Ayatollah Kashani
  • Mohammad Mosaddegh
  • nationalization of oil industry
  • oil

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