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1763, the Arab ruler of Bushehr Sheikh Nasr Al-Madhkur granted the British East India Company the right to build a base and trading and 'residency' post there, securing the monopoly of the import of woolen goods into Persia to the exclusion of other European nations. It was used as a base by the British Royal Navy in the late 18th century. In the

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