611.9131/131: Telegram
The Chargé in Iran ( Engert ) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 26—7 a.m.]
257. Report desired in the Department’s 119, November 19, is being prepared. On November 23d I received a note from the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs stating that according to information from the Iranian Legation in Washington officials of the State Department “appeared to have no knowledge of the existence of the proposed American draft. They stated that it had only been agreed negotiations should be continued between the two Governments on the basis of most-favored-nation treatment”. He requests me to explain to you that the Iranian Government’s project is the result of the consideration which was given to the Department’s draft which I had communicated to the Iranian Government on March 28, 1938.