It's what the secularized culture now uses instead of BC which means Before Christ and AD Anno Domini which translates to In the year of Our Lord. It's ridiculous that they changed it :/
His government's most significant policy, was the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC/ AIOC ), later known as British Petroleum (BP).
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