29 Esfand

Tomorrow in our calendar is off, most of the people like it because it's located exactly before Noruz holidays and they can manage all their undone jobs, I'm sure the number of those who thought about the reason is less than maybe 10% of all the society , I'm one of those 90% but this year I read a book called "All The Shah's Men", now I can understand the value of Nationalization oil attempts done by Mossadegh.

We have a really shameful history during Ghajar, those weak kings who were unable to rule the country just took loans from Russia and Britain to go to travels and have fun. In one of those attempts ,Nasiraddin Shah and after him Mozaffareddin Shah accepted to give the benefits of finding and refinery and also transportation of the oil beneath Iran soil to the Britain. In this unfair contract all the benefits would be shared between two countries in the portion of 49-51 to the advances of Britain. First no one imagined that this much oil can be found in Iran but after the first symptoms, lots of British engineers came to Abadan and started working, living and also ruling that precious territory. The conditions of Iranian labors were so bad, they should work 12 hours a day in that hot weather without any certain and minimum requirements of living and shouldn't comment about it. Before Mossadegh attempts for nationalization of oil industry the annual payment of Iran according to the Britain statistics were one-tenth of the reality.
The more I think, the less I find the reason that how a king can let himself to sell national resources and then doing nothing in compensation.
Any how ,in 29 Esfand after lots of efforts and demonstration in favor of Mossadegh movement,the rule was ratified first in Majles and then in Senat.
Again to understand the value and darness of this rule consider to the date of contract, if it wasn't objected by people then we should let Britain benefit our oil till 1996.
Then surely our history wasn't this one,...