خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎٢‎٤‎٣] (٦٠٦/٤٨٥)

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Bconomic Pressure on Iran .
A meeting attended by representatives of the India
Office, the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Economic
Jarfare and the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation
was held at the India Office on the 24th July to
consider the question in what way economic sanctions
could best be applied to Iran, supposing that Ministers
decided in principle that such economic sanctions must
be imposed.
The meeting considered the suggestions in Sir
Reader Bullard’s telegram No. 442, of the 19th July.
(1) Creating difficulties about further
conversion of sterling into dollars .
It was agreed that since, under present
arrangements, the next quarterly sum of £750,000 is not
due for conversion until the beginning of October,
this point does not arise in the near future.
(2) Withholding of shipping for Iranian ports .
It was agreed that this measure would be no less
detrimental to British interests than to Iranian
interests, more particularly in view of the probability
of Iranian reprisals against British tankers visiting
Abadan, and in view of the fact that it is desired to
keep open the Trans-Iranian route as a line of supply '
to Soviet Russia.
(3) Refusing to supply goods urgently needed by
Iran, viz eggs, tea, sugar, cement, tyres, cotton and
woollen goods, locomotives, aircraft material .
It was agreed that a refusal by His Majesty’s
G-overnment to supply such commodities, even allowing
for corresponding action by the Soviet Government,
would not be likely to produce any early effect on the
Iranian Government’s attitude, or induce them to agree
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