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Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’ [317r] (636/655)
The record is made up of 1 file (325 folios). It was created in 2 Oct 1944-8 Dec 1945. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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FROM TEHRtiN TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Sir R. Bullard
No. 1026
12 th October,1944
Bo 4,50 p.*, GMT 15th October ,1944
Ho 6o55 p„m. BST I3th October,1944
Repeated to Moscow Saving
Government of India Saving
Cairo Saving
Bagdad Saving
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My immediately preceding telegram.
There is no doubt that the Government’s decision represents
the will of the Pei si an people so far as it can be ascertained.
At secret session of the Mailis the only soeoch strongly in
favour of the acceptation c:f the Russian request was by [grp.
undec. ] hurt ash son of the former Minister of the Court who
made money buying fox the Russians in Koshod and was elected
with their help. Tudeh members are [grp. undec. ? in concert
with the] Russians but are embarrass via by the fact that some
weeks ago, when only British and American approaches had been
made, one of the most prominent of Tudeh deputies made violent
speech demanding that no oil concession should be given until
after the war. Perhaps it is for this- reason that the chief
Tudeh newspaper is giving indirect support by reproducing pro-
Russian material from other papers. Small group of secondary
newspapers are backing the Russian application violently with
material which they are quite incapable of writing themselves.
2 . More than one newspaper has stated that the Russians
do not need oil and made their ofiMr solely for the sake of
the Persians. K e seems to have uttered similar cant to the
Prime Minister who unfortunately forgot or at least omitted
to suggest that the Soviet Geverrmomi should assist Persia by
paying an economic price fur munitions and rice.
O.T.P.
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the Soviet Union’s demand, made to the Iranian Government during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of the country in the Second World War, for an oil concession agreement in northern Persia [Iran]. The file, which is chiefly comprised of correspondence between the British Ambassador at Tehran, Reader William Bullard, and the Foreign Office, covers: the deterioration in relations between the Soviet Union and the Iranian Governments, in the wake of the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Sa’ed’s consideration and subsequent refusal to grant the Soviet Government oil concessions in Persia; the activities of the Soviet Assistant Commissar in Tehran, Sergey Kavtaradze, and his efforts to persuade the Sa’ed Government to grant Soviet Russia oil concessions in northern Persia; Sa’ed’s resignation in November 1944, and the subsequent political crisis in Iranian Government that ensued; descriptions of reports in the Iranian press, Soviet press, and pro-Soviet newspapers affiliated to the Tudeh Party of Iran. The file also includes a report entitled ‘An Account of the Kavir-i-Khourian Oil Concession North Persia’, prepared by the Research Department at the Foreign Office in September 1945, and illustrated with map and photographs (ff 10-21).
The file includes a small amount of text in French (extracts of Iranian newspaper articles and Iranian Government laws).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (325 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 327; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence between ff 135-145, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:10r, 12v, 14r:14v, 17r:17v, 22r:65v, 67r:67v, 70r:94v, 97r:123v, 125r:201v, 204r:232v, 234r:277v, 279r:326v, back-i, back
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