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PREM19/76
Iran (Internal situation, including hostage crisis) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2009 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 268
Any docs withheld? 3

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Date Value Title
79 May 10 Th Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran Internal Situation") [political developments] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 21 Th Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran Internal Situation") [publication of draft constitution] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo Major Iran: UKE Washington telegram 3551 to FCO (2325Z) ("Tehran Embassies") [US response to embassy invasion; handing back of British embassy] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [occupation of the US Embassy, rumour of attack on British Embassy] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 6 Tu Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Occupation of the Embassy") [attack on British Embassy] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 6 Tu Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US/Iran Relations") [hostage crisis] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 8 Th Major Iran: FCO letter to No.10 ("Iran") [update on situation at UK and US embassies in Tehran] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 12 Mo Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("The Situation in Iran") ["It is clear that Iran has made a lurch in the three weeks since I left and one that I confess I did not predict at the time"] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 14 We Major Iran: Lankester minute to MT ("Iran and the Dollar") [Carter orders freezing of Iranian assets] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 14 We Major Iran: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Iranian Dollar Balances") [Chancellor of the Exchequer conversations with US Treasury staff] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 19 Mo Major Iran: Record of telephone conversation (Carrington-Vance) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 22 Th Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [general report] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 22 Th Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO (message from Laingen, US Chargé d'affaires in Tehran, to Vance) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 23 Fr Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran: Hostages") [the Shah and the hostage crisis] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 23 Fr Major Iran: UKE Washington telegram 3874 to FCO (1850Z) ("US Military Options Against Iran") [possible mission to rescue hostages] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 23 Fr Major Iran: UKMIS New York telegram 1607 to FCO (0041Z) ("Hostages in Tehran") [actions of UN Secretary-General Waldheim] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 24 Sa Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Tehran-Community Demarche") [record of call by Community ambassadors on President Bani Sadr of Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 25 Su Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [hostage crisis] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 25 Su Major Iran: UKE Washington telegram 3889 to FCO (2300Z) ("The U.S.A. and their Allies") [discussion with Vance] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 27 Tu Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO (report of conversations between Danish, Dutch and Swedish ambassadors and Tabatabai, brother-in-law to Khomeini) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009]