Office of the Historian

740.00115 European War 1939/1371: Telegram

The Minister in Iran (Dreyfus) to the Secretary of State

Tehran, September 2, 1941—1 p.m.
[Received September 3—10:15 a.m.]

132. The Turkish Chargé d’Affaires informs me he received this morning new instructions from his Government authorizing him to grant refuge to Germans only in occupied parts of Iran. This would preclude the granting of asylum to Germans here and avoid the complication mentioned in my number 130.23

This relieves a situation which was being viewed most seriously by the Iranian Government and the British Legation replies to Ankara.

Dreyfus
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