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♦S'zV R. ButtarcTTo^Mr^Bevin.—(Received \%th August.)
(No. 263. Secret.)
Sir, Tehran, 2^th July, 1945.
AVTTH rpfprpnnf to mv desp atch No. 128 of the 25th April, I have the honour
to transmit herewith a report on Persian affairs during April, May and
June 1945.
Copies of this despatch are going to His Majesty’s consular officers in Persia,
His Majesty’s representative in Moscow, the Government of India, the Persia
and Iraq Command, the Middle East Command, the Minister-Resident in Cairo,
and the Political Intelligence Centre, Middle East.
I have, etc.
R. W. BULLARD.
Enclosure.
The Question of the Withdrawal of Allied Troops from Persia.
1. This question took on a more practical form during the quarter as a
result of (1) abandonment of the Persian route for aid to Russia, (2) presentation
of official notes by the Persian Government to the representatives of Great Britain,
Russia and America in Tehran, asking for the removal of Allied troops forth
with, and (3) the announcement that the Big Three would be meeting shortly.
2. When the quarter began, overseas cargo for Russia had almost ceased
to arrive at Persian ports, but Russia was still benefiting by the Persian route
to the extent that she was receiving aviation spirit from Abadan under an agree
ment which was due to expire at the end of June. It was decided, however, that
Russia should be supplied from some other source with the June quota of aviation
spirit, so that, with effect from the end of May, aid to Russia, with the exception
of a small quantity of cargo lying at the ports or on the sea, ceased entirely to
be sent across Persia.
3. On the 19th May the Ministry for Foreign Affairs addressed a note to
His Majesty’s Embassy asking for British forces to be withdrawn from Persia
forthwith, arguing that it was essential that Persia should be able to return to
normal in accordance with the wishes of her people. It maintained that Japan
was so remote that the war in the Far East could not be influenced by the presence
of Allied troops in Persia and added that in any case Japan on her own showing
was no longer allied to Germany. The Tripartite Treaty concluded to promote
the war effort against Germany had therefore lost its meaning. The note added
that communications on the subject had been addressed also to the Soviet and
American Embassies. Under instructions from the Foreign Office, His Majesty’s
Ambassador informed the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in reply that although
His Majesty’s Government could not accept the argument that the Allied Powers
were not entitled by the Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty to keep troops in Persia
until six months after the end of the Japanese war, they were nevertheless pre
pared to consider sympathetically the Persian Government’s request that the
withdrawal of Allied troops from Persia should begin before the final date fixed
by the treaty. He added that His Majesty’s Government were discussing the
question with the Soviet and United States Governments.
4. His Majesty’s Ambassador in Washington was instructed to inform
the State Department of the action taken in Tehran and to explain that it had
been taken before consultation with the United States Government because news
had just been received that the United States Government intended to withdraw
American troops from Persia, and to hand over operation of the railway by the
1st July, and because the attitude of the State Department at the time of the
Crimea Conference suggested that it was unlikely there would be any serious
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