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Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received Wth September.)
(No. 368.) . . ,
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit /
herewith a copy of a despatch of the 29th August, 1943, from His Majesty’s
Minister, Tehran, to the Iranian Prime Minister, Tehran, re German agents
operating in Persia.
Tehran, 29£A August, 1943.
Enclosure.
Sir R. Bullard to the Iranian Prime Minister.
YOUR Excellency is well aware, as the result of the recent arrest of
Franz Mayer and of the admissions made by the leaders of the Qashgai, that
German agents have been operating in this country for many months and that
others have arrived recently. Your Excellency is also aware that three Iranian
nationals known to have been connected with German agents, viz Vaziri, Naivandi
and Akhbari, have remained at large in spite of repeated requests from His
Majesty’s Legation that they should be arrested. It is quite evident that such
activities could not have been carried, on without the connivance and even the
assistance of a considerable number of Iranians, and this deduction is supported
by ample evidence which is in the possession of the Allies At least some of the
evidence available must have been communicated to your Excellency by the Iranian
investigating magistrates who collaborated with the British authorities in the
interrogation of the Iranian suspects at Sultanabad; moreover, your Excellency
is aware that only a few weeks ago the Tehran police allowed to escape two of the
interned suspects who had been allowed by the British authorities to come to
Tehran because they alleged—falsely, as it turned out—that they were seriously
ill. In these circumstances His Majesty’s Government had the right to assume
that the Persian Government, in execution of the obligations imposed upon the
Iranian Government by the Tripartite Treaty, would make the most strenuous
efforts to root out all the pro-Axis activities. Far from doing this, however, the
Iranian Government, until the last few days, allowed the Tehran police to become
more and more corrupt, inefficient and hostile to the Allies, and while the three
above-mentioned suspects continued to remain at large the Iranian Government
made repeated requests to His Majesty’s Legation with the object of securing
the release of some of the suspects who were still under detention or relaxation of
control for some who had been released on certain conditions.
2. Recent events have shown that the enemies of the United Nations have
designs on Allied interests in Iran and that the security of Allied communications
in Iran are threatened. German agents in Iran are making a desperate effort
to delay the inevitable defeat of the Axis by trying to disrupt the Allied war effort
in this country and to embroil Iran with her friends. Great Britain, the Soviet
Union and. the United States of America. It is essential to the interests of the
Allies that the pro-Axis organisation in Iran should be broken up completely, and
I therefore have the honour to hand to your Excellency with this note two lists of
suspects drawn up by His Majesty’s Legation in consultation with the Soviet
Embassy and to ask that immediate instructions be issued for their arrest and
their despatch to Sultanabad for detention and interrogation in accordance with
the agreement concluded last year between the Imperial Government and His
Majesty’s Government.
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