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PREM19/77
Iran (Internal situation, including hostage crisis) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2009 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 225

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Date Value Title
79 Nov 29 Th Major Iran: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-US Treasury Secretary Miller) [oil, Middle East, BNOC, US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Iran: Attorney General's Chambers to No.10 (account of meeting between Havers and US Attorney General Civeletti) [economic actions against Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Iran: Armstrong letter to Alexander (call by FRG State Secretary Schüler) [economic actions against Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Iran: Record of telephone conversation (Carrington-FRG Foreign Secretary Genscher) [economic actions against Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Iran: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ministers-Governor of the Bank of England) [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran, economic actions] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US Embassy Tehran") [message from US Chargé d'affaires in Tehran to US State Department] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 13 Th Major Iran: Attorney General's Chambers to No.10 ("Iran") [US District Court order "appears to be a most monstrous invasion of the United Kingdom judicial sovereignty"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 13 Th Major Iran: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Iran") [account of quadripartite meeting with US Secretary of State Vance] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 14 Fr Major Iran: HMT letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington: Latest Moves on Iranian Assets") [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 15 Sa Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran-Iraq Border Incident") [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 15 Sa Major Iran: UKE Washington telegram 4228 to FCO (1722Z) ("U.S./Iran") [Shah leaves US for Panama] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 18 Tu Major Iran: UKE Washington telegram 4251 to FCO (0645Z) ("Financial Actions Allies are Willing to Take") [economic actions against Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 18 Tu Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iranian Reactions to the Move of the Shah") [Shah's move treated as "a victory for Iran" by Iranian authorities] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 19 We Major Iran: HMT letter to No.10 ("Iran") [economic actions against Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 20 Th Major Iran: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ministers-Governor of the Bank of England) [economic actions against Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 20 Th Major Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US Embassy, Tehran") [situation in Iran] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr Major Iran: UKMIS New York telegram 1940 to FCO (2025Z) ("Iran") [UN Secretary-General Waldheim report on exchanges with Iranian leadership] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr Major Iran: FCO to UKE Tehran ("Iran: UN Action") [text of message from President Carter to MT] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr Major Iran: FCO telegram 1973 to UKE Washington (2220Z) (UK Government response to US proposals on economic actions against Iran) [Carrington message to US Government] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr Major Iran: MT letter to Geraint Morgan MP (response to petition about demonstrations by Iranians in the UK) ["I sympathise greatly with the feelings which lie behind your constituents' letter...but an individual is free to demonstrate his views in public provided he remains within the law"] [declassified 2009]