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Iran. Eventually, unless Hitler changes the Allies' plans, the heaviest traffic may get to Russia by way of Iraq, Iran and the Caspian Sea. It was reported from Ankara last week that more than 70 ships are plying between the U.S. and the Middle East with materials for joint British-Russian defense, that they have begun to unload at the rate of a ship...
...boasted last week that he had deprived Russia of the use of 15,000 airplanes, 22,000 tanks and 27,000 guns. The present supply lines to Russia are not, of a caliber to replace one-tenth of such losses this winter. But if the lines-particularly the Iran-Iraq lines-are not erased, Russia may gradually grow stronger rather than weaker...
...mission was reported preparing to visit Iraq to study a rail route for aid-to-Russia. This route, the eastern end of Kaiser Wilhelm's old Berlin-to-Bagdad dream, would require 100 miles of track, 4,500 freight cars, 200 locomotives, push U.S. railroads' equipment orders still farther back in the priorities queue...
Later he fled to Syria, from Syria to Bagdad, capital of Iraq. After participating in the Iraqi coup this spring, he escaped to Iran. When British and Russians occupied that country the Grand Mufti disappeared...
...British appointed a transport expert, Brigadier General Sir Godfrey Rhodes, as director of transportation through Iran. Within a few days complete plans had been drawn up. It was decided to improve two Persian Gulf ports, Iran's Bandar Shahpur and Iraq's Basra (see map). Road and rail links with Teheran and Tabriz would be improved or completed as soon as possible. Auxiliary lines, from India via Baluchistan or Afghanistan, and from the Mediterranean via Syria or Palestine, may also be developed. But all this would take a long time...