OCCUPATION OF IRAN IN 1941

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000400130002-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

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OCCUPATION OF IRAN IN 1941
ENTRY OF IRAN DURING WORLD WAR II WAS
ALLIED (BRITISH AND SOVIET) DECISION.
DATE OF ENTRY: 26 AUG '41. PLACE OF
ENTRY: FROM NORTH BY SOVIETS; FROM WEST
BY BRITISH. PRETEXT WAS '21 TREATY.
2,000 - 3, 000 GERMAN AGENTS IN IRAN.
IRAN WAS INCLINED TOWARD AXIS:
ANTI-BRITISH, ANTI-SOVIET.
IRAN PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN OCCUPIED
WITH OR WITHOUT TREATY.
(PARENTHETICAL- -TREATY CONVERSELY
GIVES IRANIANS RIGHT TO INVADE USSR IF
FORCES INIMICAL TO IRAN ARE DEEMED TO BE
BUILDING UP THERE).
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1. THOUGH ACUTE PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN
CRISIS HAS BEEN PATCHED UP ON THE SURFACE,
AFGHANISTAN CONTINUES INCENDIARY
PROPAGANDA ON PUSHTOONISTAN ISSUE.
2. MERGER OF ALL WEST PAKISTAN INTO
SINGLE PROVINCE (THUS DASHING HOPES FOR
EVEN NOMINAL AUTCOitt OF TRIBAL
PUSHTOON AREAS) WILL, GO INTO EFFECT
TOMORROW, 14 OCTOBER.
3. AFGHAN FOREIGN MIN NAIM WARNED US
THAT CLOSER TIES WITH USSR WOULD BE
ESTABLISHED IF RELATIONS WITH PAK BROKEN
OFF AND INTIMATED THAT UNLESS PAK PM
DISCUSSED PROVINCIAL MERGER WITH NAIM,
RELATIONS WOULD BE BROKEN OFF.
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4. MOSCOW WARNING TO IRANIAN CHARGE
F_r
( NTEEAN) DREW ATTENTION TO CREATION
OF WARSAW PACT AS NECESSARY RESPONSE
TO NATO.
5. THUS DISTINCT POSSIBILITY THAT SOVIET
REACTION TO IRANIAN ADHERENCE WILL
TAKE THE FORM OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF
SOME FORM OF DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENT
WITH AFGHANISTAN.
6. MEANWHILE ]BLOC FINANCIAL PENETRA.TIOI
OF AFGHANISTAN HAS BEEN INCREASED BY
ADDITIONAL $10, 000, 000 CZC# CREDIT AND
REPORTED SALE OF $3, 000, 000 WORTH OF C.Z
ARMS.
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