CONFIDENTIAL Me Hans FM TEHRAN RECEIVED IN 1 REGISTRY NÁ 351 18 JUL 1975 CONFIDENTIAL TO ROUTINE FCO TELNO 539 OF 17 JULY INFO ROUTINE JEDDA AND SAVING TO MUSCAT, ABU DHABI, DUBAI, DOHA, BAHREIN, KUWAIT, BAGHDAD, PARIS, WASHINGTON, UKMIS NEW YORK. PERSIAN GULF SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS 1. SPOKE TO THE IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAST NIGHT FOLLOW ING HIS RETURN FROM THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE AT JEDDA, IN SPITE OF REPORTS IN THE LOCAL PRESS HERE ABOUT PROGRESS TOWARDS AN EARLY SUMMIT MEETING OF PERSIAN GULF STATES, KHALATBARI TOLD ME THAT ALL THAT HAD BEEN AGREED WAS THAT THE FOREIGN MINISTERS SHOULD MEET AGAIN WHEN THEY WERE IN NEW YORK FOR THE OPENING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 3. I ASKED HIM WHAT THE ATTITUDES OF THE VARIOUS STATES WERE TOWARDS SOME KIND OF FORMAL PACT. HE SAID THAT THE SMALL STATES WERE STILL VERY SUSPICIOUS OF IRAQ AND TRAN. THEY CLEARLY THOUGHT THAT THE RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN THESE TWO COUNTRIES CARRIED WITH IT A RISK THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO DOMINATE THE SMALLER STATES OF THE GULF. THE SAUDIS WERE BEING **VERY SLOW'). THEY WERE NOT QUITE SO DUFFICULT TO DEAL WITH AS THEY HAD BEEN IN KING FESAL'S DAY, BUT THERE HAD NOT YET BEEN MUCH CHANGE. FCO PLEASE PASS TO ALL SAVING ADDRESSEES. PARSONS DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION MED IRD NENAD GIPD DEFENCE DEPT ENERGY DEPT PUSD MOD INTERNAL EESD NAD UND CONFIDENTIAL (REPEATED AS REQUESTED]
