Concern of the United States for effecting fulfillment of assurances contained in the Declaration regarding Iran of December 1, 1943 1

1. Declaration made at Tehran by President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Premier). For documentation on the Declaration and on efforts of the United States in 1944 to implement it, see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, pp. 646 ff., and Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. v, pp. 306 ff.