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Mr# Creswell
No# 5 1 Saving
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1947. R
90th October, 1947
My despatch No.588, paragraph 4#
United States policy about the Soviet-Persian oil
agreement.
Since the United States Ambassador’s statement on
September 11th, there have been various attempts made here
to misconstrue the motives of United States interest in the
North Persian oil question. This was made all the easier
in that the Persian Director of Propaganda, in his broadcast
talk on September 28th, reported in my telegram No. 29 Saving,
was careless enough to use various phrases which suggested
that United States Government wished to obtain some
concession in North Persia from American oil interests.
2. The American Ambassador has been at great pains
to remove any basis for such misunderstandings and the
Persian Director of Propaganda has, at his request, issued
various corrective statements. The latest of these, made at
a press conference on October 13th, defined United States
policy as follows
”1. Since the accession to power of the present
Prime minister, M. Qavam, the Americans have put forward
no request in any form whatever for the exploitation of oil
resources.
2. The official representatives of the United States
have several times stated that the United States Government
would not be opposed to Persir granting facilities to
foreigners for the exploitation of Persian Oil.
5. The United States arc nevertheless opposed to
the exercise of any form of pressure on the part of a f reign
power in order to obtain these facilities for the exploitation
of all ,, .