CABLE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FROM TEHRAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-152-3-2-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 13, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/26: LOC-HAK-152-3-2-7
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FM TEHRAN :.
To. THE WHITE HOUSE
S E o R ET EYES ONLY 1309332 FEB 74
FROM: AMBASSADOR HELMS' TEHRAN 0816
To: GENERAL BRENT SCOwCRFOT? WHITE HOUSE:, wASHDc IMMEDIATE
PLEASE DELIVER AT OPENING oF BUSINESS FEBRUARY 13
.1, PLEASE DELIVER:wHAT.FOLLOWs TO SECRETARYAIsSINGER As sooN
AS CONVENIENT.
' 2. MESSAGE FOR THE SECRETARY.' (A) SAW THE SHAH ,THIS Mo7NING
? (FEBRUARY 13)' HE HAVING RETURNED FROM SWITZERLAND LAST EVENING.,
WHEN I TOLD HIM WHAT YOU WANTED WITH RESPECT TO IRAQ, HE LAUGHED
AND'SAID ',BUT THAT Is WHAT I AM DOING", HE THEN TURNED SER!oUS
: AND ASKED ME TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR REQUEST COINCIDES WITH IRANIAN
' - NATIONAL POLICY AND THAT HE WILL KEEP UP THE PRESSURE TO ATTRACT
? ATHE ATTENTION OF THE IRAQIS WELL INTO THE SPRING.- :HE ADDED THAT,
YOUR DESIRE FITTED' IN WELL WITH HIS OWN NEED TO RELIEVE PRESSURE
ON THE KUROS'OURING THESE WEEK WHEN INTENSIVE NEGOTIATIONS RETWEEN
THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT AND KuRDISH LEADERSHIP WILL BE TAKING pLACE.
(8) REFERRING To IRAQI APPEAL To UN SECURITY COUNCIL, THE
SHAH ASKED THAT THE US BE CAREFUL NOT TO FALL INTO THE USUAL PRO-
CEDURE OF SENDING MESSAGES TO BOTH SIDES TO REFRAIN. HE RECOMMENDS
'. To you THAT IRAQI 'AGGRESSION BE PLAYED UP. HE CITES THE QUICK: '
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'SHOWING ON MOSCOW TV OF IRANIAN TROOPS LoADiNG MORTARS AS A
DEFINITE INDICATION THAT A SOVIET TV CREW HAD BEEN SENT TO THE IRAQI
BORDER IN pRERARATION FOR THE SHOOT-OUT, HE COMMENTED THAT THE
iIRAQI ARTILLERY BARRAGE WAS SO INTENSE THAT IT BLASTED THE TOP
OFF THE HILL UNDER ATTACK. HE SPOKE OF THE LACK OF ROADS rim THE
IRANIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER AS CAUSING THE DELAY IN BRINGING UP
I IRANIAN ARTILLERY. ..
.. '(C) IN CONNECTION WITH THE REFERENCE TO ',IRAQI AGGRESSION." IN
jTHE PARAGRAPH ABOVE, I HAVE SENT THROUGH STATE CHANNELS TO YOU AND
1 usuN NEW YORK THE TEXT OF A KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL ARTICLE WHICH SHOULD
1 85 USEFUL TO AMBASSADOR SCALI.
(0) WARM REGARDS AND MANY THANKS FOR YOUR CHEROKEE MESSAGE
1 OF FEBRUARY A1-12. I FOR WE Am OVERJOYED THAT YOUR SENSE OF
HUMOR HAS NOT BEEN AFFECTED BY THE PRESSURES OF LIFE. H
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? FM TEHRAN
TO WHITE HOUSE
SECRET/EYES ONLY I30955Z FEB 74
F0147 AMBASSADOR HELMS, TEHRAN 0817
To: GENERAL BRENT SCOWCROFTs WHITE
PLEASE DELIVER AT:OPENING oF BUSINESS FEBRUARY 13
I. PLEASE DELIVER WHAT FOLLOWS TO SECRETARY KISSINGER AS SOON
AS CONVENIENT. "
2. MESSAGE FOR THE SECRETARY;
(Al WHEN I FINISHED BRIEFING THE SHAH ON THE STATE OF PLAY
REGARDING SYRIAN?ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS AND INpnAmt0
HIM OF THE UNWILLINGNESS OF THE USG TO CONTINUE ITS GOOD OFFICES
uNLess THE OIL EMBARGO IS LIFTED' THE SHAH COMMENTED THAT H WOULD
NoT CONSIDER*HIMSELF A Oonn FRIEND UNLESS HE POINTED OUT THAT HE
FEELS IT UNWISE TO LINK US EFFORTS 10 BRING PEACE TO THE M/DOLE
EAST WITH AN OIL EMBARGO WHICH DOES LITTLE HARM To THE UNITFO STATES,
HE COMMENTED, NolY SHOULD YOU WANT TO LOSE YOUR MAGNANIMOUS IMAGE
IN THE ARAB waguyin IF YOu INSIST ON THE LIFTING OF THE Oi( EmBARGO
NOW, YOU WILL SIMPLY GIVE THE WORLD THE IMPRESSION THATYOU ARE
GREEDY AND AT THESAME TIME YOU WELL OPEN THE WAY FOR THE RUSSIANS
To COME BACK INTO THE 'MIDDLE EAST, HE STRESSED :THAT THE UNITED
STATES HAS DONE A MASTERFULJOB OF REDUCING THE SOVIETS TO SILENCE
AND OF PUSHING THEM OUT OF THE PICTURES AND HE SAYS THAT HE HATES
TO SEE THEM GET BACK INTO THE AREA PARTICULARLY WITH 4 RE?OVENING
OF THE SUEZ CANAL. IN THE OFFING... THE SHAH DEFINITELY AGREE0s
HOWEVER', TO SEND A-MESSAGE TO KING FAISAL IN ANOTHER EFFORT TO
PERSUADE HIM TO LIFT THE EMBARGO.
(0) REMAINDER OF POINTS WHICH CAME UP DURING AUDIENCE WITH SHAMI
! WILL REPORT VIA REGULAR STATE DEPARTMENT CHANNELS. WARM REGARDS,
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