External relations of Iran

This file concerns Iran's foreign relations. It contains correspondence on:

• A report on the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's foreign policy by the Ambassador Sir A D Parsons
• An interview in Al Ahram with the Shah, touching on defence, relations with Iraq, and Dhofar
• A statement by the Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbari delivered to the UN General Assembly on 25 September 1975
• A visit by the Indonesian Economics Minister Widjojo Nibisasbro
• A visit by Nepal’s Prime Minister Nagendra Prasad Rijal
• Crude oil sales to Bangladesh
• Japan’s commercial ties with Iran; oil refining, petro-chemicals and gas exports
• A visit to Japan by the Transport Minister Javad Shahrestani; the Tehran-Mashhad rail project
• An Afghanistan and Soviet Union agriculture project on the Hari River
• An Iran-Pakistan Joint Ministerial Economic Commission meeting in Tehran
• A visit to Pakistan by the Shah
• Iranian mediation in the Afghan-Pakistan dispute
• Visits by the Afghan president Mohammad Daoud Khan and by the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; and a report touching on India and Kashmir
• A visit by a Bangladeshi trade delegation
• A trade protocol with Sri Lanka
• Visits by the Australian Governor General Sir John Kerr and the Deputy Prime Minister J F Cairns also involving Bahrain and Saudi Arabia; Australia’s supply of uranium
• New Zealand’s trade relations with Iran and Iraq
• A possible visit by the King of Tonga Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
• The appointment of Assad Sadry as Iranian Ambassador to Algeria, and interviews with the President Houari Boumédiène
• An Iranian-UK dialogue on the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict; the activities of Commander Assefe Seifu
• Iranian aid to Egypt; the visit of the War Minister General Abdul Ghani Gamassy
• A visit by Zambian Minister Ackson Suko
• An Iranian economic mission to Ghana, Zambia and Kenya
• Relations with Lesotho; and Lesotho-Libyan police cooperation
• South African relations, including nuclear cooperation
• The appointment of Dr Mostoafa Elm as Ambassador to Sudan
• The establishment of relations with Niger
• A visit by the President of Gabon Omar Bongo
• The Jordanian prime minister Zaid Rifa'i and the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the Iran-Iraq dispute
• Iran's relations with Israel; oil supplies, the possible contribution of a peacekeeping battalion, and visits by the Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbari and an Iranian delegation to a British Medical Exhibition
• The establishment of an office of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tehran
• A payment of $51-million by Saudi Arabia to Jordan
• A message from the UAE President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan
• Denmark, and the search for oil in Greenland
• Tensions between Norway and Iran relating to an assassination attempt on the Shah; oil talks
• A trade delegation from Finland led by Gemru Laine
• A visit by Austria's Foreign Minister Erich Bilka
• A state visit by the Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia
• A proposal by Dr Manuchehr Ganji and Professor Teodor Shanin to set up an International Institute for Peasant Relations at Oxford University
• A Dutch trade delegation visit, led by Ruud Lubbers
• An East German trade delegation led by Dieter Albrecht
• Hungarian trade delegations led by Mr Belaszahai and by Lajos Faluvegi
• An Iranian parliamentary delegation to Poland
• An Iranian-Bulgarian joint agriculture programme
• Czechoslovakia relations; a trade delegation led by J Jakubec
• Visits by the Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda to Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Canada
• Visits by the Canadian Minister of Finance John Turner and the Prime Minister of Quebec Robert Bourassa
• The establishment of diplomatic relations with Jamaica and Panama
• Iran’s relations with Chile, Peru, Cuba and the Shah’s visit to Venezuela and Mexico
• Proposal relating to the International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico, put forward by Princess Ashraf Pahlavi
• Economic relations with Brazil; the visit of Hossein Alizadeh
• Membership of the International Labour Organisation
• An extension of Mr Baggott as UN Narcotics Advisor
• General Assembly resolutions from North Korea, and equating Zionism with racism
• A loan to North Korea
• An Iranian initiative on a Lebanon settlement
• Iranian co-sponsorship of Morocco over the Sahara issue