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OOC: Byzantium falls under FAR protection, hardly a neutral party, but if the Bharat wants FAR to scuttle their attempts to influence a region they have no business influencing then I could always ablidge

As for the war of words, the Indians seem to egnore their puppets provocative, insulting and erronious words levied at Turkey as well as their extremely agreesive actions against the Azeri's.

Furthermore their acusations of Turkish agression are laughable when you look at India's performances in Afganistan, Pakistan and Asir.

Perhaps the Bharat needs a new Foreign minister, because the current one is totally missreading current events.

Romania is merely the host, not the mediator; and so India's fears of Russia pressing itself on Romania can be rather easily assuaged.

OOC: Bharat know that. That's why Romania is agreeable.They are neutral enough and Germany is the main arbitrer of this.

Should other parties be unwilling (or unwanted), Canada would be willing to host such discussions.

OOC: I think that's about as neutral, uninvolved, and impartial as you're likely to find. 'less someone's NPCing the Swiss.

Romania's offer is an attempt to compromise on all current issues. We have seen a war of words over where the talks are to be held before the talks even begin . The Azeri's seem to want the talks to be in Romania, the Persians/Indians want the talks to be in Germany. Persia doesnt want Turkey there, and Turkey seems not to want India there. Romania is trying to compromise, and attempting to at least begin talks in a nation, with nations that are acceptable to all parties involved but their paitence can only be pushed so far.

Therefore, we offered to host the talks, asked the German Foreign Minister to mediate, and invited everyone who seems to be involved in this whole mess. The British were not invited, mainly because they have seemingly already resolved any ME issues they have with India and Persia. Is that agreement not satisfactory to the parties involved, and they wish the British to be invited to renegotiate that treaty as well as solve the mess that the other countries are in.

Hopefully, this sheds some light into the thought behind the Romanian offer.

OOC: And with the war of words you people are having, Foreign Minister Titulescu is quite glad that we are merely hosting the talks. The Germans get to do the hard work. Although considering the wordy war you people have had, Romania may have to consider having each set of delegates in widely different parts of Bucharest and have the Germans run around to each to keep the delegates from fighting and perhaps provoking a international incident.

June 5th

Ladies and Gentlemen of the press.

On behalf of his Imperial Majesty the Shah and the Imperial Defense Council I have the following statement to give.

Loyal subjects, brothers and sister.

The threat of war is imminent and that being the case we are issuing the following orders and instructions.

I. All members of the avenging Lions are to report to the nearest Police or Gendarme post.

II. All living within 15 km of the Iraqi, Turkish, Azerbaijan and Russian borders are to evacuate immediate.

III. Martial law is declared in a zone 50 km from the above mentioned borders.

To aid our security forces we ask that you do not use telephones unless its urgent, do not travel unless its urgent, do not spread rumors, do not hoard food, medicine and fuel. If you wish to aid in the defense of the empire turn to the local Police, Gendarme or Civil defense for instructions on where you are needed most.

To answer some of the most frequent rumors.

The Government has asked for volunteers to form irregular units:

The Government has not asked for volunteers, this rumor seems to come from the fact that Kurdish, Baluchi and Pashtun tribal leaders have offered to form units, which the IDC has declined.

The oilfields are being rigged for destruction:

Since the Persian forces are unlikely to be able to stop FAR/SEAR forces from reaching the oilfields, they are being prepared for destruction as are bridges, roads tunnels and other items of use to an invader.

SATSUMA troops are landing in XX:

Persia has not requested aid under Article 22 nor requested troops in any other way, this rumor seems to come from the sighting of Indian personnel that are part of the Persian Defense Force.

The Fleet has left for XX:

The Persian Gulf stationed units are performing routine training and familiarization with the Bactrian coast, it will also visit some of the ports to see which are suitable as bases in the future

watches the market price of Russian oil rise on the news, then says to the Limeys: "Did they talk to you guys before wiring their oil fields for demolition? If they blow up theirs, we can send tankers, either from North Sakhalin to Singapore, or out Black Sea to the Med, or up Russian river/canal system to either the Baltic or White Seas, then on to Scapa."

The Chinese government says to all governments which are involved to put aside every prejudices and work together on a table to find a peaceful solution.

If desired, the talks could be hold in Beijing.

Wow, seems like Persia enjoys doing things the extremely hard way.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Mexico certainly likes what the crisis is doing to oil prices! Now if we could only talk the Russians and British into blowing their oil fields...

Preaty soon Venezuela will have its own palaces with profits from the oil prices.

Romania is definately not complaining either.

Prime Minister Duca, in a statement today

"The actions of the Persian government are a mystery to us. Romanian intelligence has seen no buildup of FAR/SEAR troops on the borders of Persia."

"To offset the impact that high oil prices would have on the world market, due to the threat of Persia blowing up its own oilfields, Romania has decided to increase its production at the Ploesti oilfields."

"We are puzzled about their threat to demolish the oilfields, which we thought other nations had shares in. Did the Persian government make mention of this to the governments involved?"

OOC: More oil produced at high prices means more money for us, and the Romanian oil production, even at an increased rate can't offset the loss of the Persian oilfields. So prices will stay high, and Romania will look like its doing something.

*Azerbaijan reads the news, cackles, and orders twelve new Renard R-37 fighters from Belgium with the extra profits from their own oil sales.*

Arent the Baku fields in Russia?

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Originally posted by Vukovlad
Arent the Baku fields in Russia?

The Baku fields aren't the only Azeri oil fields. Over fifty percent of the OTL Azeri fields are in the southern half of the country.

OO: So just to be crystal clear, I assume Persia is not attending the talks in Romania?

OOC: I was under the impression they were.

I'm writing one last news piece which should happen the same day talks begin, and it presumes the Persians and all other interested parties are in Romania.

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Originally posted by Vukovlad
Persia will send an delegation to hold talks with Azerbaijan and Russia concerning the Caspian sea and with Azerbaijan concerning the current crisis.

June 6th

The IDC has decided to adopt the Mannlicher 23.M Kisérleti Gyalogsági Puska as the standard service rifle for the future Naval brigade. 5,000 rifles to be produced by Fémáru Fegyver és Gépgyár with the option of later acquiring a license. The straight pull 23M uses the standard Persian 7.92x57mm round so no conversion or alterations will be necessary.

In related news Dr. György Jendrassik has accepted to head the Aeronautics Engineering department of Teheran Polytechnic Institute.

A number of people have been arrested for looting evacuated property and will face military tribunals.