CABLE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FROM TEHRAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-152-3-16-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 20, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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TO THE 'WHITE HOUSE
17I MAR 74
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CI e TEHRAN 849
TO: IMMEDIA E GENERAL ,:BRENT- SCOwC
Fpom: AMOAS ADOR'HELMS, TEHRAN
PLEASE DELIVER AT OPENING oF BUST
RP.: TEHRAN /347
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KISSINGER AS SOON AS FgASIRLE.
2, mULLA mUSTAFA BARZANI AND
ROFT, WHITF HOU
kE55 MARCH 20.
NG MESSAGE TO S "CRETA Y
OR UTHMAN MET
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? THEY PROY1ObiliTHE S AH WITH A WRITTEN PROPOSAL ON THC
ISHMENT OF THEIR OWN AUTONOHOUS'GOVERNNENT WITH A, DETAILED
p BUDGET FOR ADMINISTRATION, DEFENSE, EDUCATION, ANn
HEALTH. THE MINIMUM BUDGET FIGURE WH/CH THEY PROJECTED
60 MILLION IRA41 OINARC A YEAR (kEnUT 180 KILLION,
THE UPPER 8?100ET FIGURE WHICH.qHfY PROJECTED W&5
UCE THAT AMOUNT, 120 MILLION IRAQI DINARS (160 MILLION DOLLARS).
THEY SAID THAT THE SHAH HAD REPLIED THAT THEIR REQUESTS
11)10 REQUIRE CONSIDERABLE STUDY. HE HAD, HOWEVER, PROMISFr? THEM
1REASEO FINANCIAL AND 'ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE IN VIEW OF THE w
? pltrANcEs, ESPECIALLY THE INFLUX OF 250,000 REFUGEES ANr. THE
ANILITY THAT BAGHDAD WoULD SUBJECT THEIR AREA TO AN EctINONIC
.DCKApt. THF SHAH. ALSO SAID HE WOULD YELL GENERAL NASIAI TOO
WHAT ADDITIONAL -ORDNANCE COULfl BE PROVIDED, AND SPECIFICALLY
Y TO PROCURE FOR THE YURDS AtieVANTITY of LIGHT HANDo.HFLO
OUND-TO-AIR ROCKETS OF BRITISH AANUFACTURF4COMMENT:
'ESEARE NOT 414 THE IRANIAN INVENTORY AND WOULD PRESEMABL-v BE
AUSILY DENIABLE BY IRAN SHOULD ANY OF THEM BE TURED?)
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PARZANI AND UTHNAN sEEHEO EASONARLY- SATIFIfD WITH
THEIR MEETINGS WITH THE IRANIANS,.,THEN, UNDERSTOOD THAT THFrE
HAD BEEN INSUFFICIENT TIME TO EXPECT A ,,REPLY FRDH tts THEN
WoNDERED WHETHER OUR GOVERNMENT CnULD INTERCEOE WITH THE TtwKS
THEY SAID THEY WOULD GIVE ANY ,GUARANTEES THE TURKS HIGHT, RE.',.,1UIRE.
.THEy ALSO EXPRESSED HOIi!* THAT THE U.S. COOL'; JOIN IRAN IN strppORT-
ING THEM AT THE UNITED, NATIONS.
(AS A REGIONAL. POwEP WITH THEIR Owl4 KURDISH 4,1INORITY.
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THE IRANIANS ARE. IN A mORE-FAVORAPLE POSITInN THAN WE To INTER- '
CFDE 'WITH THE TURKS.: IF wF BOT' DID IT, THE: TURKS WOULD HA,vE
CnW IRNAT tot! DE THEIR SUSPICIONS THAT WE ARE JOINTLY- SOPPOP'TING
BARI,ANI4 OUR STANCE:. AT THF UNITE0 NATIONS v0U11ORO6A8LI n4PENO
ON WHETHER THE , IRAQIS - ACTUALLY nO ENGAGE IN GENrItion WAR ArAiNsT
THE -1.01kftS,), 1
6.1 COMMENT: t THE SHAH APPEARS TO BE DEFERRING ANY
DECISION ON AID OF THE DIMONSioNS REQUESTED t3 Y, tofetikos,.: is
onilio ENOUGH TO KEEP THEN IN BUSINESS AND TO A'VOID',CREATINr_ A
SITUATION WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE Tn CAPITULATE TeRAOHDA6i. PO' HE',
WfluLD PROFIAOLY,,LIK* TO AVOID A COMMITMENT Or. 18D1.3601414,10N A
YFAP WHICH WOULD HA?V*''' Ta OF MAINTAINED SO OING AS)4,;-1RAO)
AnE pEPIVED THE KURDISH AREA.w..OF PARTIOPATIONvI1414A*04,NOWNA
OIL rEVNUES. THE IRAQI. KORDISH AREA DOES;, NOT 140.14-.Pf: ?OP*t0 '
RESOURCES OR OUTLETS WHICH WOOLDSvPPORTHAN P coNtowALLY. VIA L
INDEPENDENT STATE.
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