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OCR Page 1 of 2NLT (Naval A.del248
OFFICE OF
DECLASSIFIED
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
WASHINGTON
State DEB NLT, Date 9-5-85
Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982
September 21, 1951
By
T OPSEGRE T
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
IRAN
Yesterday morning in Tehran Court Minister Ala
handed the British Ambassador the written "Iran-
ian Government" proposals for renewing oil negotiations. These pro-
posals, however, were typewritten on paper without letter head, signa- -
ture, or date. The British Ambassador informed Ala that he failed to
see in the proposals any forward step, but that they would be referred
to London at once for comment. Our Embassy says that a first perusal
of the proposals indicates that they differ in no significant points from
those transmitted by Mosadeq to Mr. Harriman, except that no ultima- -
tum is set and the Iranians state they are prepared to accept a foreign
"technical director" to act as liaison between the National Iranian Oil
Company and the technical staff.
In a later call on our Embassy Ala transmitted a
copy of the above-mentioned proposals. Ala took the occasion to state
his belief that Mosadeq was now genuinely desirous of conducting ne-
gotiations in a spirit of goodwill and reaching a reasonable solution.
Ala added, however, his personal opinion that those surrounding Mosa-
deq, notably Makki, Fatemi, Kashani, Baqai, and Hassibi, might be
motivated by other objectives. Specifically Ala mentioned their inter-
est in the forthcoming elections and even went so far as to say that there
was talk of a republic among some of Mosadeq's followers.
In answer to our Charge's query Ala stated that
he was confident that Mosadeq, as a gesture of goodwill, would be will-
ing to send the negotiators to London, being fully aware of the difficulty
which the British would find in sending a third negotiating mission to
Tehran.
MOROCCO
M. Schuman told the Secretary in Ottawa that he
wanted to propose an exchange of letters between
the US and France concerning Morocco which wauld follow the line of