318. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Iran1
277012. Subject: Hoveyda and President-elect. Please inform PriMin that President-elect will not be able meet with him during his US visit next month. President-elect hopes that PriMin will understand that during next few weeks he must devote his full time and attention to preparing for his administration. He has therefore decided that he will not be able to receive any foreign visitors in this period. You may tell PriMin that President-elect remembers with pleasure his talks with the PriMin in Tehran in April 1967, that he has warm admiration for the PriMin and for his role in Iran’s great progress in recent years, that he looks forward to strengthening the already close ties between our two countries and that he very much regrets not being able to meet with the PriMin in December.
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 7 IRAN. Confidential. Drafted by Eliot on November 22, cleared by Leonhart, and approved by Rockwell.↩