Ext 5000/41(1) 'Persia: situation leading up to, and after, the Allied occupation' [‎175r] (349/606)

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8 . As regards the remainder of thF^Bimhr^cinmTtinity, His
li^^sty’s Government v/ill be grateful to be kept closely informed
or^ae dates of their departure. The Iranian Government will no \
doubt arrange that no further German nationals shall be permitted I
to arrive in Iran.
9. It is important that none of the German technicians to be
retained under the arrangements contemplated in paragraph 7 above
should be employed on work connected with the Iranian system of
communications, e.g. railways, roads, telephones, telegraphs and [
wireless, or where their harmful activities might paralyse the
national life of Iran during a period of crisis.
10. Finally, it is urged that effective steps should be
taken to place under strict surveillance and to restrict the
movements of the German technicians who are to be retained under
the arrangements contemplated in paragraph 7 above, in order to
ensure that they shall not engage in activities of any kind other
than the technical work for which their services have been secured.
11. It is requested also that similar steps should be taken
to control the activities of the refugees who fled from Iraq on the
collapse of the illegal Government set up in that country by
Rashid Ali Gailani. The Iranian Government are under a clear
obligation to take effective measures to prevent the use of Iran
ian territory by these refugees for their intrigues directed against
the Iraqi Government and their Allies. Repeated requests have been
sent to the Iranian authorities since these refugees first reached
Iran at the end of May that they should not be allowed to remain in
Tehran, but should be interned in some provincial city far from the
Iraqi frontier, that they should be kept under strict police super
vision, both as regards their movements and their visitors, and that
they should be required to give written guarantees to abstain from
every kind of political activity while in Iran. In spite of
repeated representations from His Majesty's Government and from the
Government of Iraq, the Iranian Government appear to have taken no
adequate steps to control these persons, who remain in the neigh
bourhood of Tehran, whose movements are unrestricted and who are
understood to be in close and constant touch with the diplomatic
representatives of the countries with which His Majesty’s Government
are at war. It is evidently necessary that steps should at once
be taken in accordance with Iran's international obligations in this
matter.
12. The Iranian Government have already, it is understood,
arranged for a careful investigation to be made into the position
respecting the German nationals resident in Iran and full information
is no doubt available to show the alleged reason for the presence
of each individual. It is hoped therefore that the list of any
German nationals whom it may be desired to retain for essential
work may be communicated to His Majesty’s Minister without delay and
that steps may be at once taken to arrange for the immediate
departure from Iran of the remainder of the German community".
Memorandum ends.
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