D'Arcy agreed and sent out Associates to Tehran to acquire a concession that may give him the special rights to prospect for oil in Persia. On 16 April 1901 negotiations commenced among D'Arcy's Reps as well as Qajar monarch Mozzafar al-Din Shah over a possible oil concession.[four] The Steering Committee consist of Reps of the ICHHTO, the Vaqf au