Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE they DECLASSIFIED WASHINGTON E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State By DEB NLT, Date 7-26-85 Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 May 6, 1952 SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS EGYPT The Egyptian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister have indicated that the latest British proposals for a joint Anglo-Egyptian public statement designed to precede the resumption of negotiations are "com- - pletely unacceptable". The Prime Minister told Ambassador Caffery that he would make his first public declaration concerning the controversy with the British in his Kingts Accession Day speech today. Caffery urged re- straint and besought the Prime Minister not to make any sort of break with the British. (The Prime Minister promised he would not.) Caffery intends to ask for an audience with the King for tomorrow and will seek to persuade him to give up the idea of reaching agreement on a joint public statement as a pre-requisite to the resumption of negotiations. The Chief of the Royal Cabinet told Caffery that the Egyptians authorities are ex - tremely disappointed with the new British proposals but they will not re - ject them immediately. He promised that before the reply is sent to the British it will be shown to Caffery. IRAN Prime Minister Mosadeq has indicated in a conversation with Ambassador Henderson that he will try to consolidate his con- trol of the newly-elected Majlis (hower house) by excluding new members "who clearly had been unfairly elected". When the names of these deputies would be called they could be ousted if the majority of members of the Majlis would refrain from rising to vote for their admission into the Majlis. Mosadeq added with a laugh that it would take less effort for delegates to remain seated than for them to stand. Mosadeq said that if he would teach a lesson to the country by excluding unfairly elected deputies he thought that elections yet to be held in various districts would be fair. In the same conversation Mosadeq asked Henderson what had prompted the State Department to issue a recent press statement reiterating that the US would not extend financial assistance to Iran while the oil question remained unsettled. If the US had decided to give full cooperation to the British in exerting pressure on Iran, said Mosadeq, the only result would be that Iran would be pushed into the Soviet camp. Henderson replied that the US had no intention to exert pressure on Iran; the statement had been issued because of Iranian press reports which misled the Iranian public SECRET SECURITY INF ORMA TION