Notes
Notes
2 Foreign Office71/E2/2/34/24570/Public Records Office, London.
3 FO371/E1484/24570/PRO.
4 FO 371/E842/2/34-24570/PRO.
5 FO371/E382/211/34/24570/PRO.
6 FO371/E2426/24570/PRO.
7 Ibid.
8 FO371/24570/PRO.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 BBC Persian Service Archives, program for the 65th Anniversary produced by Shahryar Radpoor, an internally authorized account of the period.
12 Ibid.
13 FO371-35089/E5035/PRO: Sir Anthony Eden writes to Sir Reader Bullard, 26 June 1941, saying that in a letter discovered by British Intelligence, Mayer was found to have written that the southern mountainous areas of Iran were a safe bastion for German military work, claiming that it ‘is like a part of Germany or an unassailable allied state behind the enemy's lines in which you can do anything you wish, train, recruit, and build landing ground, munitions dump and U-boat bases.’
14 FO371/28914/34/211/PRO.
15 FO371/211/34/4902/PRO.
16 FO371-27213/EP5518/PRO Anthony Eden to British legation in Teheran, 9 September 1941.
17 Cited in E. Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton, NJ, 1982), 165.
18 FO371/35117/E239/34/PRO: Sir Reader Bullard to the Foreign Office, ‘Annual Report for the Year 1942’.
19 BBC Persian Service Archives, program for the 65th anniversary of the Persian Service produced by Shahryar Radpoor.
21 Hussein Shahidi, The BBC Persian Service—60 years on, September 24, 2001.
22 BBC Persian Service Archives, program for the 65th Anniversary of the BBC Persian Service: produced by Shahryar Radpoor.
23 Ibid.
24 FO371-40194/E3248/PRO: Sir Reader Bullard to Foreign Office, 9 June 1944.
25 FO371/E2081/38/34/PRO.
26 FO37140194/E3596/PRO: Sir Reader Bullard to all Councils in Iran, 20 June 1944.
29 FO371/91523/PRO.
30 FO371-91523/EP1531/68/PRO.
31 Full text in FO371/91524/EP1531/122/PRO: Nationalization of Oil by BBC Diplomatic Correspondent.
32 FO371/7188633-EP1531/228/PRO.
33 BBC Persian Service Archives, program for the 65th Anniversary of the Persian Service, produced by Shahryar Radpoor.
34 Ibid.
35 L.P. Elwell-Sutton, Persian Oil: A Study in Power Politics (Lawrence & Wishard Ltd, 1955), 241–242.
36 Norman Kemp, Abadan, A First-hand Account of the Persian Oil Crisis, (London, first published in 1953 by Allan Wingate), 144–145.
37 BBC Persian Service Archives, program for the 65th Anniversary of the BBC Persian Service, produced by Shahryar Radpoor.
38 Ibid.
39 L.P. Elwell-Sutton, 146.
40 Norman Kemp, 146.
41 Ibid., 208.
42 Ibid., 198.
44 Interview with M. Torfeh.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
47 BBC Persian Service Archive, program for the 65th anniversary of the Persian Service, produced by Shahryar Radpoor.
48 Interview with M.Torfeh.
49 BBC Persian Service Archive, program for 65th anniversary of the Persian Service, Produced by Shahryar Radpoor.
50 Interview with M. Torfeh.
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid.
53 BBC Persian Service Archives, program for the 65th anniversary of the Service, produced by Shahryar Radpoor.
54 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, The Shah's Story (London, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1980), 161.
55 Ibid., 163.
56 William H. Sullivan, Mission to Iran (New York, WW Norton & Co, 1981), 156–157.
57 Parviz Radji, In the Service of the Peacock Throne, (London, Hamish Hamilton Publishers, 1983), 111.
58 Ibid., 167.
59 Ibid., 269.
60 Ibid., 252.
61 Ibid., 173.
62 Ibid., 271.
63 Ibid., 289.