خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎٥‎٦] (٦٠٦/١١١)

OUTWARD TELEGRAM
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government, and should be
[This telegram, is of particular secrecy and should be retained
by the authorised recipient and not passed on].
IMMEDIATE
Your telegrams Nos. 596 and 598 [of 25th August:
Anglo-Persian relations].
Following is draft of instructions to you now under
discussion with Soviet Government. You should take no
action on them pending further instructions.
[Begins].
You may inform the Persian Government that, as already
stated, His majesty's Government and the Soviet Government
have no designs against the independence of Persia or her
territorial integrity. They have been forced to take
military measures by fact that the Persian Government have
paid no heed to their friendly representations, but these
measures are not directed against Persia herself, only
against the menace arising from the potential activities of
the Germans established in key posts throughout the country, ^
If now the Persian Government.are prepared to co-operate,
therefls no reason why hostilities should continue;
2. His majesty's Government and the Soviet Government
will however require certain guarantees that the Persian
Government are in fact now willing to meet their reasonable
wishes. These requirements are as follows:-
\ (a) The Persian Government should give orders to
! their troops to withdraw without offering further
kept under Lock and Key.]
— With the C«mpKroents
of the
Jncjer* Secretary of Stato
for Foreign Affairs
(EoOfco/G)
[Cypher]
WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION
TO: PERSIA
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO TEHRAN
No. 575
27th August, 19E1.
D. 10.30 p.m. 27th August, 19A1
Repeated to India No. 10328
Moscow No. 1120
Cairo No. 30A6
Bagdad No. 834-
Angora No. 1905
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