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    "ocrText": "NLT/PSF -5UBJ.360\ncopy / OF2\nINCOMING TELEGRAM\nDepartment of State\n670\nTELEGRAPH BRANCH\n15 X\nTON SECRET\nA\nAction\nControl: 8581\nRec'd:\nJuly 17, 1951\nNEA\nFROM: Tehran\n11:14 a.m.\nInfo\nTO: Secretary of State\nSS\na a Sec. 3(E) and\nG\nNO: 240, July 17, 3 p.m.\n5-31-7f\nD pr. of State letter,\nEUR\nPROUEST NLY\nDCR\nBy NLT He NARS D le 10.274\nPRIORITY\nFROM HARRIMAN FOR THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY ; DISTRIBUTION\nONLY AS DIRECTED BY THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE.\nSunday Grady briefed me on developments and at his suggestion\nI saw Mosadeq yesterday alone except for an interpreter. I\ncalled on him in the morning and he came to my residence in\nthe late afternoon. Between the talks Grady and I lunched\nwith Shah.\nAt my first talk Mosadeq received me most cordially at his\nhome. His only significant remark was:\n\"When\nthere\nare\ntwo\ndivergent points of view it is good to have the help of a\nthird party. Otherwise he gave me his interpretation of\nevents as told to and reported by Grady on numerous occasions.\nI proposed that we should discuss the details of the problems\nof oil production and distribution at our next meeting.\nFor the afternoon session he brought with him Hasibi, Under\nSecretary of Finance and Saleh, chairman of the National Oil\nTROMAN\nCo. Walter Levy gave these two men probably their first frank\nany AND\ndetailed education on the technical aspects of how the world-\nwide oil business was conducted. While these technical dis-\nC.S.\ncussions were being carried on, I talked with Mosadeq about\nhow a settlement might be reached. He was completely rigid in\nhis statements. He had, no desire to talk with representatives\nof the British Government or the oil company. He asked that\nI propose a formula of settlement, provided it conformed to\nthe nine points of the recent Nationalization Law. If this\nformula met his approval, I could then take it to the British.\nThis I declined to do, but emphasized the need for an immediate\nmodus vivendi. I explained the disastrous results that would\nfollow a shut-down of the refinery, not only in the immediate\neffect on the Iranian economy but in the problem of getting the\nbusiness going again. I explained the difficulty of bringing\nan operating organization together again and of selling oil\nafter the market had been taken over by other sources. Mosadeg\ntook the position that then Iran wld fall into Communist con-\ntrol. This he considered was the obligation of the British\nand ourselves\nREPRODUCTION OF TIIS\nESSAGE IS PROMIBITED"
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