Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part II

File No. 4298.

The Persian Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Legation of Persia,
Washington, January 28, 1907.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to bring to the knowledge of your excellency the fact that His Imperial Majesty the Shah, my august sovereign, has designated His Imperial Highness Prince Ahmed Mirza, his son, as heir presumptive to the imperial throne of Persia, and that the Persian nation, as well as the representatives of the foreign powers at Teheran, have received official notification of that nomination.

I improve the occasion of informing your excellency of this above-mentioned fact, and renew to your excellency the assurances of my high consideration.

Morteza.