The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjed_Soleyman" id="mwyg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Masjed Soleyman">Masjed Soleyman</a> in southwest <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia" id="mwyw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Persia">Persia</a>. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company" id="mwzA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anglo-Persian Oil Company">Anglo-Persian Oil Company</a>.