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Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’ [99r] (200/655)
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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[This telegram is of particular secrecy, and should .De.'''X.ut.ajLned
by the authorised recipient and not passed on. ]
[CYPHER ]
WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION
FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE
9»
Sir R. Bullard.
No, 1,566.
22nd December, 1944.
Repeated to: Moscow.
M.E. Min r s
D: 9.38 a.m. GMT 22nd December,1944.
R: 11.10 a.m. BST 22nd December,1944.
Office, Saving.
IMPORTANT
My telegram No.
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5*13
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SECRET
party are very active
anda '"amongst 7
in
It is clear that .Russians and Tudeh
the north/ In'Tehran there is/Lntense "propa
deputies, officials//Students and even schoolchildren. Some
newspapers of course stand'up/for Persian independence, defend^
oil concession/law / and / controlled / [grp.undec* ]. but Persians
generally'seem'to'feel / that they^stand alpne* 'when^scraps from
British and American'press 'about^the oil crisis 'reached Tehran,^
the public felt that thewprld/lutsidcwasleast aware of ^
theij;-/difficult situation xut they ^av^ not'evc^ that consolation
now. Anything In B.B.C. X broadcasts in Persian that show the
continued/interest pf British^in the-/fate ^pf Persia:" would Encourage
public opinion.^ It is’not necessary/hat news should be critical
of Russians.^ Persians know/that if the world .'merely npard there
were disturbances and Remands "for provincial councils at various
places/where/there are/Russian troops/"Russian interpretation of
these/events would not/sonvince''everybody./
x / *' ^ s'
2. Perhaps th/ false impression jaade by ‘'Times” leader of
November 3rd./" (my telegranrlflo.. 1.562) / Could be/dissipated By
another Article- noUTfUIeri mg lo the/parlier; uney but/naking it x
clear that/'the/co-operation/which is required between the three
powers 4s not "aboutr the" sharing of "oil/out ^hbout the^attitude^.^
towards ^Persia that is dictated by ""tripar tit e "treaty and Tehran
declaration 4bout Persia.^
5.- If Kavtofadze's^farewell statement (my telegram No % 1557L
has not been ^published-could it 1 dp published, now? /It was "relatively
rmhlin/and althmieh^norresnondents were not allowed to telesranh "
public/and although/correspondents were not'allowed
it-i:here has "neen ' time"for it to reach'Qairo and even
to telegraph
'„_^BHfc , for''Persi : an '
Embassy'in London/to receive'it by "bag in Tehran newspapers.^//, y
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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