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TO: IRiiN (PERSIA).
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO TEHRM.
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No. 503.
9th ^ugust, 191 . 1 ,
D. 2.00 p.n. 10th August, 19A1.
Repeated to G-overniiient of India No. 9141.
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You should on 11-th August present to the Iranian Grovernment a
memorandum in the following terms, and should also endeavour if
possible to hand a copy to the Shah, or at least to ensure that His
Majesty receives a copy without delay. If you think it desirable,
you are authorised to explain that the memorandum may be regarded
as a document confirming an oral communication which you have been
instructed to make.
Memorandum begins:
!f The Imperial Iranian Government have on many occasions affirmed
their desire to maintain an attitude of the most scrupulous neutrality
towards the conflict which has been forced upon the world by the
aggressive ambitions of the present rulers of Germany. This, ( desire
to remain outside the zone of hostilities was equally felt by'other
States who have since been attacked or overrun by the German armed
forces,. It is in the light of this incontestable fact that His
Majesty’s Government now feel themselves obliged to put forwaru in
the most friendly spirit certain observations to which they must
draw the Iranian Government's serious attention,
2, In the first place His Majesty's Government wish to
emphasise the fact that they themselves fully accept and endorse the
Iranian policy of neutrality. They have themselves no designs
against Iran's political independence. It is their sincere desire
to maintain that policy of friendship and co-operation with Iran
which they believe to be in the best interests of both Iran and the
British Empire.
3. With the development of the war, however, a serious danger
both to Iranian and to British interests has become manifest, m So
long ago as January last .Bis Majesty's Government brought to the
notice of the Iranian authorities their grave concern in regard to
the excessively large number of German nationals who have been
permitted to reside in Iran, Since that date they have repeatedly
warned the Iranian Government of v the potential dangers arising from
the activities of these German nationals, and of the importance, in
Iran's/