Archive

1979 May 10 - 1979 Dec 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

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

Selections from this file

Showing items 21 - 30 of 30

Per page:
Date Valuesort ascending Title
79 Dec 6 Thu Iran: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-US Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury, Robert Carswell) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 6 Thu Iran: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran, monetary policy, Bank of England appointments, EMS, EEC Budget] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 8 Sat Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US-Iran Confrontation") [situation report] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 10 Mon Iran: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ministers) [US proposals to freeze Iranian assets] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 10 Mon US: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vance) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran, Rhodesia, arms for the Royal Ulster Constabulary] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 22 Thu 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 27 Tue 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]
79 Nov 5 Mon Iran: UKE Washington telegram 3551 to FCO (2325Z) ("Tehran Embassies") [US response to embassy invasion; handing back of British embassy] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 12 Mon 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 8 Thu Iran: FCO letter to No.10 ("Iran") [update on situation at UK and US embassies in Tehran] [declassified 2009]