Office of the Historian

891.51/580: Telegram

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

Tehran, July 21, 1943—3 p.m.
[Received July 22—12:36 a.m.]

755. My 741, July 19. Millspaugh has furnished following statement of Iranian public debt as of July 20, 1943. Figures are in millions of rials.

1.
External debt 219 of which equivalent of 20 payable in dollars and remainder in pounds.
2.
Internal debt 3742.
3.
Internal and external debt is composed of 1.957 floating, 1.806 short term and 197 long term.
4.
Total debt maturing in the year 1322 amounts to 1.187 and in 1323 to 98. The difference between the amount maturing in 1322 and the figure of 157 given in paragraph 2 (d) of my No. 741 which represented repayment of debts in 1322 will be refinanced by Banque Mellie.
5.
Amount of internal debt borrowed in 1322 is 370. Amount which can still be borrowed from Banque Mellie is 130.
Dreyfus