While Iran and the world waited, the deadline came & went. The Russians were still there.
The Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Jan. 29, 1942 (to whose aims the U.S. later gave its blessing) pledged Britain and Russia to quit the country by March 2, 1946. When Britain and the U.S. last year sought to predate the deadline, Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov acidly observed: "The Soviet Government is. guided strictly by the time limit established in the" 1942 treaty."
Two of the Big Three met the deadline. The last G.I. quit by Jan. 1, the last Tommy before midnight on March 1....
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