Tehran, July 2—(INS)—Premier Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran offered today to write into the laws of the nationalized Iranian oil company a clause guaranteeing “continued and permanent” flow of Persian oil to the western world. [National Iranian Oil Company]

In an exclusive interview with International News Service, the premier put forward a new plan for settlement of the dispute between Iran and the British Government over nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s billion-dollar holdings in Iran.

At the same time, however, Mossadegh — leader of Iran’s fanatical National Front movement — ruled out any compromise with respect to operation of the AIOC fields and refineries in the vicinity of Abadan.

(A Reuter dispatch from Tehran quoted Iranian political sources as saying that Mossadegh has drafted an “exceptionally strong note” accusing Great Britain of attempting to sabotage Iran’s oil industry.

(The Tehran newspaper Arash [sic—probably means Atesh] published an unconfirmed report that a number of Soviet petroleum experts have re-applied through the Russian embassy for jobs with the nationalized Iranian oil company.)

Mossadegh insisted that the AIOC as a working industry “must quit Iran.”

“Furthermore,” he said, “the British government must recognize unconditionally the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry.”

The Iranian Premier expressed willingness to have U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady act as mediator in an attempt to work out some formula for the signing of oil receipts by AIOC tankers.

Captains of scores of vessels piled up along the jetties of Abadan and at the Shatt-el-Arab Delta Bar have refused to acknowledge such receipts. They stand by their contention that they are employed only by the AIOC and do NOT recognize the nationalized oil company.

This has stopped the flow of oil temporarily and the tankers’ masters have been ordered to pump loaded fuel back into reserve tanks.

Mossadegh, the ailing and aged man who may hold the destiny of the world in his hands, received this correspondent at his bedside in his small and unpretentious private residence where he has had dramatic diplomatic conferences with Grady, and held cabinet meetings.

When I was escorted to his bedside by his middle-aged son, [Gholam-Hossein] Mossadegh was lying on a simple black-painted iron bedstead on a second story porch where a brick wall shaded him from the scorching sun.

He wore a brown pajama-type jacket and used his arms to prop himself up as he talked. Mossadegh, a mild-mannered, soft spoken multi-millionaire and a descendant of one of Iran's oldest and noblest families, said at first that he could spare only five minutes. But the conversation lasted for forty-five.

The frail figure, with an almost bald head rimmed with white hair, reminds one of the late Mohandas Gandhi, especially when he says he is destined by divinity to liberate Iran from Britain and advocates a campaign of non-violence against Brtish domination.

“The Iranian government”, Mossadegh said, “is prepared to receive governmental missions from Britain and other consumer countries to negotiate an agreement providing a continued supply of oil in the same quantity as they have been receiving for the last three years.”

Asked about the possibility of resumption of negotiations with the AIOC itself, Mossadegh said that this could be “only for liquidation of the former company and not for them to continue to operate our oil industry.”