مجموعة ٢٨\ ٨٥ "بلاد فارس. العلاقات مع شركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية التابعة للحكومة البريطانية." [و‎‎١‎٣] (٣٨٠/٢٧)

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Dear Excellency,
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My Golleaguea and I have given the mo at careful
thought to your letter of the 3lst December 1942 informing
me of the instructions received by you from the Imperial
Iranian Government.
I may perhaps remind you that the arrangement
referred to in your letter, which was insisted upon by the
Government of the ex Shah, was the result of events and
circumstances entirely beyond the Company’s control, the
Company having faithfully carried out all its concessional
obligations. Consequently the arrangement made was only
concluded with a sense of grave disquiet and the text
included a stipulation, inserted at the instance of the
Company, that its duration should be limited to a period
Jt u ]tn y» i«yp up to the end of 1941 and that the payments made were
put with the Concession and would not affect its terms
or create n precedent.
Nevertheless my Company is most anxious to foster
the spirit of goodwill towards Iran where ve have worked
for so many years and will work for many years to come
under the Concession Agreement of 1933; and further, I
would like to assure your Excellency that my Colleagues
and I fully appreciate the magnitude of the problems which
confront the Imperial Government as well as the C>mpany
in the face of a World War.
I am therefore glad to be able to inform Your
Excellency that, as an arrangement quite apart from the
Concession, the Board has authorised me to agree that with
effect from the 1st January 1942 the Company will make up
the sums due on account of royalty tonnage, dividend
participation, taxation and gold premium to Four Million
Pounds sterling (£4,000,OOj) in total in respect of each
year ending 31st December up to and including the year in
which the United Nations complete an Armistice with
both Germany and Italy, provided and so long as the
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