IOR/L/PS/12/3538

Correspondence produced in response to a memorandum written by the Iranian Government minister Hagir (also written Hajir [ʿAbd-Al-Ḥosayn Hažir]) outlining difficulties arising from and proposing solutions in relation to Britain and the Soviet Union’s occupation of Persia [Iran] in the wake of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of the country in August 1941. The memorandum chiefly concerns the material demands being made upon Iran during the occupation, and requests that the Iranian Government be given more input into arrangements made between its British and Soviet counterparts, with, or in regard to the establishment of a ‘Persian Corridor’ for the transport of war materials from Iran’s ports on the Gulf to the Soviet Union. A copy (in English) of the memorandum and its enclosures is included in the file (ff 40-82). A copy of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Robert Anthony Eden’s response to Hagir’s memorandum is also included in the file (ff 14-25). Other correspondents in the file include: the British Minister in Tehran, Reader William Bullard; and the Foreign Office.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.