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TheAnglo-Persian Agreement, known inIran as theContract of 1919 (Persian: قرارداد ۱۹۱۹) involved theUnited Kingdom andPersia (officialexonym of Iran at the time), and centered on the drilling rights of theAnglo-Persian Oil Company. The "agreement" was issued by BritishForeign Secretary,Lord Curzon, to the Persian government in August 1919. It was never ratified by theMajlis (Iranian parliament).
After the1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the newSoviet government abandoned the formerRussiansphere of influence in the five northern provinces of Iran, branding the concept as "TsaristImperialism". Britain was the remaining power in the region and Curzon hoped to make Iran not a protectorate but a client state of Britain and of no other great power.
The document gave a guarantee of British access to all Iranian oil fields. In return the British would:
The document was criticized by foreign observers ashegemonic, especially in the United States, which also had designs on accessing Iranian oil fields. Eventually, the Anglo-Persian Agreement was formally denounced by the Majlis on 22 June 1921.
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