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May 21, 1952

From the Journal of Y. A. Vyshinsky, 'The Reception of Nadir Arasteh, the Iranian Ambassador in Moscow'

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FROM THE JOURNAL OF
A. YA. VYSHINSKY

 

THE RECEPTION OF

NADIR ARASTEH, THE IRANIAN AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW

 

21 May 1952

 

Today at 1330 I received the Iranian Ambassador in Moscow Nadir Arasteh, to whom I handed the note of the Soviet Government in connection with the exchange of letters between Prime Minister Mossadegh and US Ambassador in Iran Henderson which occurred at the end of April concerning the issue of renewing American so-called aid to Iran (the text of the note is attached).

 

Having described the content of the note, I asked the Ambassador to convey it to the Iranian government.

 

Arasteh promised to immediately take steps to pass the note to Tehran.

 

The conversation lasted five to seven minutes. Cde. Yakushin, Second Secretary of the Near and Middle East Department was present at the conversation.

 

21 May 1952 [signature]

 

Distributed to

Cdes. Stalin

Molotov

Malenkov

Beria

Mikoyan

Kaganovich

Bulganin

Khrushchev

346-V

 

[Stamp:] Secretariat of V. M. Molotov

21 May 1952

Incoming Nº M-6843s 

Account of meeting between Vyshinsky and Arasteh. Vyshinsky asks Arasteh to pass a note along to Moscow, regarding the exchange of letters between Mohammad Mossadegh and US Ambassador to Iran, Loy Henderson.

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RGASPI, f. 82, op. 2, d. 1219, l. 106. Obtained by Jamil Hasanli and translated for CWIHP by Gary Goldberg.

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