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D: 7.30 s.m # .25th August, 1947
No, 1.896.
24th August, 1947. R: 1.20 p.& # 25th August, 1947.
Repeated to: Tehran No, 24,
Washington No, 341
LviPQRTANT
LIG-HT
Soviet-Persian Oil Agreement,
Pravda for the 24th of August prints tuo-column
article by S. Vladimirov entitled "The intrigues of_
Persian reactionaries" reviewing the present situation
with regard to the setting up of a joint Soviet-Persian
oil company,
2. After recalling the terms of the Sovict-Persian treaty
of April 1946 the writer remarks that the news that the
Soviet Ambassador had handed the Persian Prime Minister a
draft agreement for the organisation of the company "has
worked [sic; ? evoked] a number of hostile statements by
reactionary Tehran newspapers aimed at disrupting the
Soviet-Persian treaty". These newspapers ‘‘expressing the
interests of a group of Persian reactionaries and certain
foreign circles" try to justify their anti-Soviet attitude
by reference to the "national" interest of Persia. In
reply to Tehran Liosavvars statement that "the Persian
people is opposed to offering any concession" Vladimirov
declared that the Soviet-Persian treaty does not speak
of a "concession" but of a "joint company" and that the
[grp.undec.? attitude] of the Persian people should be
judged not be statements in reactionary newspapers but by
those made by representatives of “mass democratic organi
sations" by the "progressive Persian press" and even by
some representative of Right Wing circles who welcomed the
oil agreement at the time of its signature, Vladimirov^
concludes that Tehran Mosawars statement that the Persian
people is opposed to the agreement does not reflect the
mood of wide public circles in Persia but is dictated
by certain foreign circles who are trying to disrupt
Soviet-Persian oil agreements.