Anti-British sentiments, Lieut.
Commander Eguchi asserted were also strong, it being widely rumoured in Teheran that the Iranian Government had threatened to set fire to the installations of the Anglo-Persian Petroleum Company unless British pressure on the Iranian Government was lessened.
While trade relations between the Soviet Union and Iran were at a virtual standstill following the expiration of a commercial agreement between the two countries in June last year, Japan was now buying 13,000 tons of Iranian cotton each year, while Iran was purchasing Japanese cotton piece goods and other merchandise in increasing quantities. Trade between Japan and Iran last year amounted to Y.50,000,000, Germany and Italy, the Japanese officer said, were also making marked progress in economic and commercial activities: in Iran—Dowei.
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