خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎١‎٨‎٣] (٦٠٦/٣٦٥)

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No , M99* R. 11.40 p.m. 8th ^ugust, 1941.
5th Rugust, 1941.
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Cairo No. 2794.
Bagdad No. 749.
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Your tclugrrai No. 491 [o f 3rd x.ugust: relations with
Iran (Persia)].
I approve your language.
2. You should inform acting Minister for Foreign
affairs that'on learning of his enquiry I have authorised you
to assure him that His Majesty's Government have no aims of
any kind incompatible with the maintenance of Iranian
(Persian) independence and neutrality. On the contrary it
is because they attach such importance to the continued
neutrality of Iran in all circumstances that His Majesty's
Government, who have seen what disastrous consequences have
resulted from failure in other countries to get rid in time
of German Fifth Columnists regard it as vitally important
that Iranian Government shall take immediate steps to remove
this grave menace.
3. You should then say that I welcome indications given
by Iranian Government that thuy appreciate reality of menace but
that I cannot regard steps hitherto taken as in the least
adequate. Indeed I have learned with astonisiiment that
apparently only about twenty-five Germans are to leave in the
immediate future. You should press that Iranian Government
shall take immediate steps to send away a substantial number
of Germans without further delay.
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AUG 1941
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