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Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’ [292r] (586/655)
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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OUTWARD TELEGRAM
B. 6515/615/G.
[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be retained
by the authorised recipient and not passed on],
[CIPHER] I /! r- !
WAR C ABINET DISTRIByriOH 1
mM FOREIGN OFFICE TO WASHINGTON • - !
No. 9594
D*4>15 p e m» 28th October, 1944*.
28th October, 1944.
Repeated to Tehran No? 708
Moscow No, 4010
Goverrmien t of India
M.E. Min. No. 155 Saving
Bagdad No. 42 Saving.
T T T T T
IMMEDIATE.
Tehran telegram No,, 1079—^-of ^25rd-October] and your
telegram Nop 5809 [ of 26th October: Russian pressure on the
Persian (iovemment to granu oil concession].
. , I share State Department's apprehensions about Soviet
intentions in Persia and was abou'c to enquire views of
united States Government on this question 0
2. > You may inform State Department that, in view of
undertakings in Anglo-Soviet-persian Treaty and in Tehran
Declaration of 6 th December 1945 ( to which latter United
States Gpvernment are signatories)^ His Majesty's Government
are considering approach to Soviet Government.. General
lines of such approach would be that His Majesty's Government
in no way contest the right of Soviet Government to seek an
oil concession in North Persia: They consider, however, that
this is a question on which Persian Government nave a right
to take their own decisions and they have for their part
apcepted without demur the Persian decision to grant no further
oil concession during the war. They understand that United
States Government have taken a similar attitude. They feel
that it would not be in accordance with the above-mentioned
undertakings if the Persian Government were forced against their
vail to concede during the war the very extensive rights
which the Soviet Government are now demanding.
5, We v/ould propose that any initial approach to Soviet
Government should be based on the foregoing general lines, namely
that.it is a necessary condition of Persian independence that
Persian Government should not be expected to dispose of Persian
property otherwise than by free negotiation^ If Soviet
Government then deny that methods used by them are open to
objection on these grounds, we should quote from evidence in
+F R° a( 3- e r Bullard s telegrams and from Soviet sources, e,g*.
attacks on Persian Prime Minister in Soviet press*
„„ o T ,I: n ^5 n 0 S- 1 d r th . e United States Government be prepared to take
an approximately similar line with the Soviet Government?
TT . , Rave seen Tehran telegram No, 1092. p , ivin^ , vim/.d nf
United States ambassador, wETcE^o not -affect IctioS proposed above
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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- 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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