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Chapter I: January 1 to November 18, 1945

Soviet Army interference with the movement of Iranian security forces in northern Iran; discussions at the Malta and Yalta Conferences on the presence of foreign troops in Iran; identic Iranian notes of May 19, 1945, requesting withdrawal of foreign troops from Iran; Three Power agreement at the Potsdam Conference to evacuate Tehran; further Soviet interference with attempted Iranian security measures in northern Iran; Anglo-Soviet exchanges on troop withdrawal during the London Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers

[379] The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin) to the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov)

[London, September 19, 1945.]

Reprinted from Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 414, col. 246.

[380] The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin)

[London, September 20, 1945.]

Reprinted from Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 414, col. 246.

[381] The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin) to the Peopled Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov)

[London, undated.]

Reprinted from ibid., col. 247.

[382] The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin)

[London, undated.]

Reprinted from Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 414, col. 247.

Royal summer palace at Shimran, a suburb of Tehran.↩

Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, The Near East and Africa, Volume VIII

Chapter I: January 1 to November 18, 1945

[353] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[354] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[355] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Chief of the Division of Middle Eastern Affairs (Minor)

[356] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[357] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Iran (Murray)

[358] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[359] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[360] Memorandum by the Director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (Henderson) to the Secretary of State

[361] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Iran (Murray)

[362] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[363] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[364] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[365] The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

[366] The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

[367] The Shahanshah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) to President Truman

[368] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[369] The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Iran (Murray)

[370] The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State

[371] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[372] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[373] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[374] Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by Miss Mary E. Crane of the Division of Middle Eastern Affairs

[375] Memorandum by the Director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (Henderson)

[376] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[377] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[378] The Ambassador in Iran (Murray) to the Secretary of State

[379] The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin) to the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov)

[380] The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin)

[381] The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin) to the Peopled Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov)

[382] The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin)