In 1956, Nassar took the fateful decision of nationalizing the Suez Canal and destroying the ownership structure over it that had been dominated by the foreign British and French shareholders for nearly a century.

1956 年，纳萨尔做出了将苏伊士运河国有化的重大决定，摧毁了近一个世纪以来由英国和法国外国股东主导的所有权结构。