Iran Crisis: Mossadegh Pleads Oil Case Before U.N. Appearing before the U.N. Security Council assembled to iron out the ticklish Iranian oil crisis, Premier Mossadegh, Iran's ailing premier, tells the world body that it has no jurisdiction in the case and lays the blame squarely on Great Britain. VS meeting, Mossadegh, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, America's Warren Austin.