Nuclear power generation: Persian Gulf

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Suggestion by Edmund de Rothschild that two areas along the Gulf and in central Iran are suitable for desalination (1)
• Desalination plants in the Gulf area, including details of Nivand Company's interest in the plants and a newspaper cutting from the Tehran Journal, dated 3 July 1966, on the proposed desalting plant (3)
• Information received that the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) Research Institute of Nuclear and Applied Science in Tehran no longer exists as such and that the laboratories have been taken over by the Iranian AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) (4)