خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎٢‎٩‎٦] (٦٠٦/٥٩١)

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10,^0 hours, 10th July, 1941.
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Addressed to Secy, of State fox- India ;
r ep ^ a , ted t0 TehltaI1 S06 - M y telegram No^M9_jrspeated
l to Tehran ^QCLjsras drafted and despatched before we
study Tehran telegram to Foreign Office
5 97 tiuly _lst a nd Foreign Offi ce telogram No. 343 to
'ifoiy £gfrraft-Of July 3rd. We see no Reason to modify views
we have expressed and are concerned to uote v/hat
(? appears) to be absence of positive policy in Iran,
We are also anxious to emphasise danger of continual
tendency of past 20 years whereby Iran, lying on
fringe of Middle East and India, is liable to fall
between tv/o stools. We were not as Iced for our views
* v 011 in your telegram No. 7506 dated June PJvhh.
.Yet in our views posit impolicy to secure elimination
| ox enemy centre in Iran is a matter of most vital
| importance.
2. We must, in particular, protest vigorously
against the assurance to Iranian Minister for delivery
curing next few months of materials for aircraft,
result of which will be to males Iran considerably
better equipped in the air than India herself which at
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