MIDDLE OF THE COLD WAR!

Just the thought of the USSR controlling vast amounts of oil and cozying up to Iran would obviously drive the immaginations wild in a very VERY bad way.

England knew what was going to happen and they needed America to help them out and low and behold the "Oh my God they are turning commie!" drum that the Brits were beating got Ike to get involved. When you guys just wanted to keep your big money and keep screwing the Iranians which is what Harry Truman saw and he turned you down.

Face it, England caused all this trouble and America has kept on screwing it up once you passed the problem on to us