Office of the Historian

740.00119 Council/12–1845: Telegram

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

Moscow, December 18, 1945—1 p.m.
[Received December 18—7:40 a.m.]

4209. From the Secretary [of State to the Ambassador in Iran].23 Reference Tehran’s telegram to Moscow 339, December 15.24 You may tell Foreign Office withdrawal of troops from Iran will be discussed here. You may also say informally it is improbable any other Iranian question will be raised.

I do not think it desirable to express my view regarding proposed visit to Moscow of Iranian Prime and Foreign Ministers.

To Tehran as 181; repeated Dept as 4209. [Byrnes.]

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Harriman
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  1. The Secretary of State was in Moscow attending the Conference of Foreign Ministers, December 16–26, 1945.↩
  2. Same as telegram 1132, December 15, 11 a.m., from Tehran, p. 496.↩