Office of the Historian

761.91/108

The Minister in Persia (Kornfeld) to the Secretary of State

Teheran, August 25, 1924.
[Received September 24.]
No. 621

Sir: Referring to the Department’s Instruction No. 316 of June 30, 1924 relating to duties other than tolls collected on goods imported into Persia, I have the honor to advise the Department that thus far the Legation has received no complaint from Americans regarding the imposition of this or any other tax by the Persian Government. Therefore the presumption is that, under the most favored nation provision, American citizens receive the same treatment accorded to Great Britain under the treaty of 1903.

I have [etc.]

Joseph S. Kornfeld