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Show 68 the Imperial Tobacco Corporation, should be paid off immediately Russia should become Persia's sole creditor and have any claim on the Persian revenues" (Browne, received the money and with his his court traveled to king wished again had borrowed Based brought He on several different treaties, most into Iran were done so without tax foreign market at a price below that production and the domestic market) to bankrupt semi-workshops close The king long spent. He gave the exchange for a the sum cent of the money he or or foreign commodities custom. Persian goods foreign commodities, particularly countries which used the from the longer no (Aminu'Dowleh, 1962:155). regard to those cost of sum Europe. again returned without could not compete with the price of . to go to entire of the northweste-rn railroad to Russia in of 10,000,000 roubles. 1910a:99). that prime minister and certain members of Europe, returning with the Three years later-the monopoly England should so policy of "dumping" (the sale in in a in the home market and lower than the price- in order to eliminate commodities the small factories in Iran. small factories which had existed Therefore, the were forced to (Shajiee, 1965:13). In the early part which caused responsible a of the 1900's, Persia wide-spread famine in the was also hit country. for the death of several thousands by droughts These droughts (Kasravi, 1961:130). were |