Editing Filibuster (section)

==Iran==
During [[Anglo-Persian Oil Company#Nationalisation|Iranian oil nationalisation]], the filibustering speech of [[Hossain Makki]] — the [[Iranian National Front|National Front]] deputy — took four days<ref name="Encyclopædia Iranica 1901">{{Cite web |date=1901-05-28 |title=Oil Agreements in Iran |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/oil-agreements-in-iran |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125065904/https://iranicaonline.org/articles/oil-agreements-in-iran |archive-date=2021-01-25 |access-date=2015-09-01 |website=Encyclopædia Iranica}}</ref> and made the pro-British and pro-royalists in [[Majlis (Iran)]] inactive. For four days Makki forestalled the vote by talking about the country's tortuous experience with [[Anglo-Persian Oil Company|AIOC]] and the shortcomings of the bill. Four days later when the term ended, the debate had reached no conclusion. The fate of the bill remained to be decided by the next Majlis.<ref name="Elm 1994 p. 56">{{Cite book |last=Elm |first=M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoU4AI-yq7UC&pg=PA56 |title=Oil, Power, and Principle: Iran's Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-8156-2642-8 |series=Contemporary issues in the Middle East |page=56 |access-date=2015-09-01}}</ref>