761.91/12–2845: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Iran (Murray)
759. You were furnished an outline of the conversations which took place in Moscow with regard to Iran in Moscow’s telegram to you of Dec 28 which was repeated to Dept in Moscow’s 4311 of Dec 28.
You are authorized to inform Prime Minister of Iran in strict confidence of the general course of the conversations and particularly of proposal to form an Anglo-American-Soviet Commission to advise and assist the Iranian Govt in re-establishing satisfactory relations [Page 522] with provinces through establishment of provincial councils as provided in Iranian Constitution and to make recommendations to the three powers in respect to the acceleration so far as possible of the withdrawal of Allied troops in Iran. Please inform Prime Minister that American Govt would appreciate learning at once whether Iranian Govt would be disposed to cooperate with such a commission in case it would still be found possible to create it. You may add that in our opinion it would be in the interest of Iran to cooperate with such a commission in case its creation should be found possible.
Please keep in touch with regard to this matter with British Embassy which it is understood is receiving similar instructions from Bevin.
[The final evacuation of American troops from Iran, except for the three groups mentioned in the last paragraph of the letter of November 24 from the Secretary of War to the Secretary of State, page 452, took place on December 30, 1945; see T. H. Vail Motter, The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia, in the official Army history United States Army in World War II: The Middle East Theater (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1952), pages 426 and 499.]