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A report from 8 February 1972 states that three of the six elected board members of the Gachsaran Lions Club had high positions in NIOC.
Further, it can be remarked that the earliest joint ventures were those established by ENI and certain Egyptian concerns and by Agip Meraria, an ENI subsidiary, NIOC of Iran, both in 1957 [22].
The representatives of oil workers employed by the Consortium signed a collective agreement in negotiations with representatives of NIOC and the Ministry of Labour.
NIOC, agreed to increase the wages, but the strike was repressed and its main leaders, Babakhan Mohagheghzadeh, Majid Jasemiyan and Hooshang Ramzi, were exiled to Khorasan.
As one oil worker explained: “We thought that everybody who was in the Lions club worked for SAVAK, but later we understood this wasn't the case.”836 Among the high-level staff of NIOC, the official ideology of the state resonated strongly.
Not surprisingly, given the autocratic nature of the regime, the highest echelons of NIOC were closely linked to the Shah.
In 1966 he was interrogated by the SAVAK and was exiled to Gachsaran, where he was first employed in the construction department and then transferred to the materials depot of NIOC in 1970.
In Tehran, NIOC applied a creative control mechanism to weaken trade union organisation.
While technological know-how remained in the hands of foreign oil companies (the Consortium), the establishment of NIOC was an important step that gradually increased Iranian technological competence.
This worried some SAVAK officials to the extent that they proposed to fire the second-year students who stood at the core of the protests, to only accept 100 candidates per year and to recruit them from the NIOC staff.871 In 1974-75, the students at AIT organised its biggest strike, which resulted in a monthlong sit-in and closure of the institute.