The last day of March is called and celebrated in the official calendar of Iran as “Oil Industry Nationalization Day.”
March 20, 1951 is inscribed in the memory of the Iranian nation as a historic day. The proposal for nationalization of oil industry, which was submitted to the national assembly on March 8, 1951, was approved by the assembly members on March 15 of that year. The resolution read: “for the welfare of the people of Iran and in order to contribute towards world peace, the following signatories propose that the Iranian oil industry be declared national in all regions of the country without exception; “That means all operations of exploration, and extraction should be in the hands of the government.” The Senate also approved this proposal on March 20, 1951, and the proposal became law.
The adoption of the law of nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, on March 20, 1951, is considered to be a turning point in the country’s political and economic status and the people’s struggles to save the national wealth from foreigners’ hands. When the first Iranian oil well was discovered by a British company more than a hundred years ago in Masjed Soleiman in Khuzestan province, the then Iranian government was not aware of this important event. But its explorers knew very well what a treasure they had found in Iran. They laid the foundations of their colonization in Iran with exploitative contracts for extracting, producing, and selling Iranian crude oil. Foreign companies have been plundering the national wealth of Iran for years.
Dr Mohammad Mosadegh was the cornerstone of the “oil-free economy” thought. He once again won the assembly seat, in the 14th round of elections, in September 1941. The global situation during this period was such that various countries, especially Russia, Britain and US were keen on gaining oil concessions from the Iranian government. Since britain had the concession for exploiting the southern oil resources, the Russians sought to gain northern oil concession, and the Americans were also looking for a share of the oil in Iran. Shortly afterward, in the 16th parliamentary elections, in 1945, Mossadegh entered the parliament in the second round of elections. During this period, the parliament approved the plan to nationalize the oil industry under his leadership. The law on the nationalization of the oil industry was a proposal submitted to the parliament by the signatures of all members of the oil commission in the National Assembly of Iran on February 6, 1951.
The Oil Commission was a commission that was formed on July 8, 1950, in the 16th term of the National Assembly of Iran, to review the oil bill “known as the Gas-Golshayan bill.” The same commission proposed the nationalization of the oil industry to the parliament in 1951.
After assassination of Razmara, on February 26, 1951 the special commission for oil of the national assembly approved the bill to nationalize the oil industry. To be more precise, the law on the nationalization of the oil industry was a proposal that was submitted to the parliament with the signature of all members of the special commission on oil, and “for the same of the welfare of the Iranian nation” on March 8, 1951, and was approved by the National Assembly on March 15, 1951. Then, the Senate approved the proposal on March 20, 1951, and after Mohammad Reza Shah signed it, it became law. Thus, March 20, 1951, was recorded in the history of the Iranian nation as the day of “nationalization of Iran’s oil industry.”
Happy Vahishtuhish fah, the 5th day of the Maidyarem gahanbar.
The word hamspatmaidyiom means equalizing day and night. In the Zoroastrian calendar, every month is 30 days.
The five days at the end of the year each have a different name, and the Zoroastrians celebrate these five days of Gahanbar as the celebration of panjeh or the fifth. These five days are called the five days of panjeh, which are named, respectively, the first day of panjeh of the camp. The second day of panjeh is sometimes called the third day. The fourth day is called Panjeh and Hovakhshtargah. And the fifth day is called the claw, and the eighth day. Therefore, based on the earth’s rotation around the sun, the Zoroastrian calendar has 365 full days. Once every four years, there is one more day called Ordad from the month of Ordad.
