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                                             Tehran, Iran
                                             21 December 1943.
 
Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States
The White House
Washington,  D.C.
 
 
Dear Mr. President:
 
     On your departure from Tehran you outlined to me, during
 
our conversation at the airport, a tentative basis for American
 
policy in Iran which might be used as a pattern for our relations
 
with all less favored associate nations. In response to your 
 
suggestion and the directive which I received from the Secretary 
 
of State, I wish to submit the following for your consideration.
 
                             PART 1
 
     It is the purpose of the United States to sustain Iran as
 
a free, independent nation and to afford the Iranian people an
 
opportunity to enjoy the rights of man as set forth in the Con-
 
stitution of the United States and to participate in the fulfill-
 
ment of the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
 
     The policy of the United States toward Iran, therefore,
 
is to assist in the creation in Iran of a government based
 
upon the consent of the governed and of a system of free enter-