خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎٩] (٦٠٦/٥٣٧)

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DRAFT TELEGRAM.
From: Secretary
To: Governmer.
external. Department.
tj-Obllli-t
of State.
t of India, External Affairs Department.
IMPORTANT.
/ Addressed to Government of India, repeated
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to Minister, Tehran and Minister of State, GairolVox**™ i
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Your telegram dated 16th July No. 1661S. I am not
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clear as to reasons for your protest or for your
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statement that the consideration of problem in Iran
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has not been related to that of Middle Fast security
as a whole.
H.M.G. 'agree with your view that the
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first step in our policy should be pressure on Iran
to' expel the Germans and Bullard has been instructed
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to make first approach to' Iranian Government to
secure this.' This is to be done as you suggest in
conjunction with parallel representations from the
^ If "this approach fails the next
start economic pressure.^ You will
now also have seen further telegram sent by Foreign
Off ice^to Bullard No. 3 ^2 of 17tli July on the
subject of the concentration of Germans at Tabri^.
2.' If yojir objection is to statement of
Soviet Minister.
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step will be to
intentions of H.M.G. in paragraph 3 of Foreign Office
telegram 382 as
being contrary to Government of
India*s proposal for"strict control of imports of all
such material into Iran, Bullard’s instructions are
to make it clear that supply of aircraft materials
etc. is to
depen
d on the action of the Iranian
Government to preserve their independence and freedom
from hostile influences and as is pointed out in
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Foreign Office jtelegram No. 383 these materials would
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