IRANIAN REQUEST FOR UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE IN PROVIDING FOODSTUFFS FOR BARZANI'S KURDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-152-3-28-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: April 15, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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Irania~~ Request For United.Stat~s.
Assistance i n ~rav~ o~ nc~ ~ooc~stuff s
for Sarzani's.Kurds
?n 74 Anri~ 1974
ran ~rav3dir~~ faodstufFS, es~?cially iz~heat, Flaur,
d reCtsest that the i~TZI yea ~tateS ~;avernta,enL a5515ti
pa~alydes, t~ ti^,e area c~fi Iraq centre i 1 ed b _
~arzani's K~:rds and blockaded by >3agi~dad.~
supply ire ?ran.itsei7 and that,Unii;ed States Government sup
.Irar~zat~s also saiw t>'lat the bore Focds s=iere #t`: short
of reFur~ees .and Iraqi punitive ecanc,t~#c n~eusures. The,
~. becoming cr3 ti cal due ~a tie ~nf1 ux
sa#d 4ha1+ t~,e fcc~d sit~atiac~ an the.
,pct"t tta5 therel?are needed.
J ~. The above inftirmatiart has been giv~tZ to Ambassador
~#leims in Tehran..
3. It is our vie->r that as lt~na as the present state
~a an urtacceptabl a "~ evel
bu'i ity'~ cv;rat~odi ti es -- .requests vshi ch sri l l certai rely be rem
currir~g .~- tse rur~.'the serous risk of eroding the security
of .our present operation, not to ;~ention raising our costs.
~foo~f_shortages. By trying to be responsive to requests for
of tovision exists bett~reen the aarhdad Gnvernr~ertt and i~ul3a
i~iustafa`s Kurris, the ia~ter vri13 su`Ffer chronically fra~n
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,4~' it~ is ~'nArPfore my recammendat:lon th$t our
r,85j]DttS point out she diffictxZties of try-
i rtg td t~ ~ arye atn?unts of ccmmod~ tj es and
cur unv:illingness to taus raise the risk factor to do
c~r~acc~pt~ble level'~~ ~ if gran is unable to meet all the
i~.crds` re~u~i?ei~tientt, it should 6e recvm-ie~nded to the
tcuros. tnat 't