Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, The Far East, Volume V

124.91/102: Telegram

The Chargé in Iran (Ford) to the Secretary of State

Tehran, January 15, 1944—6 p.m.
[Received January 16—3:22 a.m.]

18 [28?]. Today I interviewed Foreign Minister⁸ regarding Department’s telegram No. 23 dated January 13, 11 p.m. and he assured me his Government is “flattered by, appreciative of and thoroughly agreeable to” proposal to raise our respective Legations to Embassies. He stated he was immediately telegraphing this favorable attitude to his Minister at Washington.

Ford

8. Mohammed Saed.