Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, The British Commonwealth; The Near East and Africa, Volume III

740.0011 European War 1939/14816: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, September 8, 1941—6 p.m.
[Received September 8—4:03 p.m.]

1645. The Iranian Ambassador told me this afternoon that the Soviet and British Governments have now requested the surrender to them of the German agents in Iran rather than their mere expulsion and that the Iranian Government in reply is suggesting that the women and children be sent to Germany via Turkey and that the men be placed in a concentration camp in Iran under British supervision.

Steinhardt