ANNEX TO NSC ITEM ON IRAN

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NSC BRIEFING 21 January 1959
ANNEX TO NSC ITEM ON IRAN
ANNEX I: TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, PERSIA AND RUSSIA (26 February 1922 ratified
Art. V. The two High Contracting Parties undertake--
1. To prohibit the formation or presence within their
respective territories of any organizations or groups of persons,
irrespective of'the name by which they are known, whose object
is to engage in acts of hostility against Persia or Russia,
or against the allies of Russia.
They will likewise prohibit the formation of troops
or armies within their respective territories with the afore-
mentioned object.
2. Not to allow a third party or any organization,
whatever it be called, which is hostile to the other Contracting
Party, to import or to convey in transit across their countries
material which can be used against the other Party.
3. To prevent by all means in their power the presence
within their territories or within the territories of their
allies of all armies or forces of a third party in cases in
which the presence of such forces would be regarded as a menace
to the frontiers, interests or safety of the other Contracting Party.
Art. VI. If a third party should attempt to carry out a policy of
usurpation by means of armed intervention in Persia, or if such
power should desire to use Persian territory as a base of
operations against Russia, or if a foreign Power shoul thr.eaten...
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the frontiers of Federal Russia or those of its allies, and if
the Persian Government should not be able to put a stop to
such menace after having been once called upon to do so by
Russia, Russia shall have the right to advance her troops into
the Persian interior for the purpose of carrying out the
military operations necessary for its defence. Russia under-
takes, however, to withdraw her troops from Persian territory
as soon as the danger has been removed..
Exchange of Notes 12 December 1921:
In response to an Iranian request for clarification of
the meaning of Articles V and VI, the Russian Diplomatic
Representative in Tehran wrote the following:
"In reply to your letter'dated the 20th day of Ghows, I
have the honour to inform you that Articles V and VI are
intended. to apply only to cases in which preparations have
been made for a considerable armed attack upon Russia or the
Soviet Republics allied to her, by the partisans of the regime
which has been overthrown or by its supporters among those foreign
Powers which are in a position to assist the enemies of the
Workers' and Peasants' Republics and at the same time to possess
themselves, by force or by underhand. methods, of part of the
Persian territory, thereby establishing a base of operations for
any attacks--made either directly or through the counter-
revolutionary forces--while they might meditate against Russia
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or the Soviet Republics allied. to her. The Articles referred
to are therefore in no sense intended to apply to verbal or
written attacks directed against the Soviet Government by the
various Persian groups, or even by any Russian emigres in
Persia, in so far as such attacks are generally tolerated as
between neighbouring Powers animated. by Sentiments of mutual
friendship."
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