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    "ocrText": "5/15/54: Reel 3, Track 2, Page 6\nknown where we stood with the British, then we could have gone back to\nhim and pressed him on sone of his points. But until we knew where we\nstood with the British we were never able to, in a sense, bargain with\nhim on the points at issue, press as hard as you like on price.\nMR. NITZE:\nHell, I don't know; we pressed him as hard as we could. I think the deal\nthat we were talking about was the right deal and it was not acceptable\neither to the British or to Mossadegh by a very small marging on both sides.\nMR. McGHEE:\nThe margin on price was very thin, because he was down to a $1.35 a barrle\nand our oil companies assured us that they wouldh it have been embarrassed\nby a dollar five a barrel.\nVOICE:\nBy a what?\nMR. McGHEE:\nThey wouldn't have been embarrassed by a $1.05 a barrel. That's with the\nIranians paying the production cost.\n-NATIONAL\nARCHIVES. ADMING\nRECURDS\nMR. HARRIMAN:\nThat's thirtypercent-twenty-five per cent off.\nt's\nMR. McGHEE:\nThat's not far off, considering the enormity of the difference originally.\nMR. ACHESON:\nThis whole attempt to negotiate, following Averell's attempt, blew up in\nthe middle of or late November. And then-I think the reason we talked\nso much about Iran is that it is a perfect example of the way these problems\ndevelop. You have a period when youre dealing with something which makes\nsone intellectual sense and appears to be approaching a deal of some sort.\nThat fails-it failed in this case and failed with Aterell-and then you\nhave a period in which all the tensions and all the political problems\nincrease at a very rapid tempo, so that the next time you try it you try\nit\nunder\ndifficulties\nvery\nmuch\ngreater\nthan\nthe\nones\nunder\nwhich\nyou\nattempted\nit the last time. And after this effort of ours failed in late November or\nearly December, the tensions increased in Iran, both within the country-\nthere was more political agitation and excitement; they increased between\nIran and the U. K., and they began to increase between Iran and ourselves."
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