Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1942, The Near East and Africa, Volume IV

701.9491/16: Telegram

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

Tehran, January 13, 1942—4 p.m.
[Received 7:14 p.m.]

8. The British Minister,⁷⁸ acting under instructions from London, has suggested to Iranian Government the desirability of effecting withdrawal of the Japanese Legation in Tehran. He expresses belief that Iranian Government might more readily be persuaded to expel the Japanese were United States to take parallel action.

I should appreciate receiving instructions should the Department wish me to take the matter up with the Iranian Government on a purely informal and friendly basis. I should add that annex 2 to the treaty⁷⁹ which will probably soon be signed requires the Iranian Government to break diplomatic relations only with “any state which is in diplomatic relations with neither of the Allied Powers.”

Dreyfus

78. Sir Reader W. Bullard.
79. Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Alliance, signed at Tehran, January 29, 1942, Department of State Bulletin, March 21, 1942, p. 249.