Robert Rossow Jr.

Robert Rossow, Jr. (born 1919 in Indiana)^[1] was the Deputy of the Embassy of the United States of America in Tabriz, Iran, where he served from December 1945 to June 1946. He then headed the Political Department of the US Embassy in Tehran until January 1947.^[2]

Robert Rossow, Jr.
Born	1919 Indiana, United States
Nationality	Americans
Occupation	Diplomat
Known for	The Battle of Azerbaijan, 1946
Title	Deputy of Embassy of the United States of America in Tabriz Head of the Political Department of the US Embassy in Tehran
Parents	Robert Col Rossow (father) Ethel Rossow (mother)

He served as US Deputy Consul in Panama in 1943.^[3] He also served on a United States Department of State mission in Bulgaria in 1947.^[4][5][6] From 1949 to 1951, he was US Deputy Consul in Chennai, India.^[5][7][8][9]

During his charge in the Tabriz US Consulate, when the Azerbaijani Democratic Party ruled in this city, he observed the movements and activities of the Red Army in Tabriz and transmitted all the secret operations of the Soviet Union forces in Azerbaijan to the United States moment by moment.^{[10][11][12][13]}

The Battle of Azerbaijan

Some of his confidential reports to the US government have been published in the book "The Battle of Azerbaijan, 1946". The book is based on an article by Robert Rossow, Jr. himself published in The Middle East Journal in the winter of 1956.^[14][15][16]

See also

• Julius C. Holmes
• Charles C. Hart
• Azerbaijan People's Government
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush
• Deportation of the Iranian students at US airports
• Correspondence between Barack Obama and Ali Khamenei

References

1. "Robert Rossow from Justice Precinct 4 in 1940 Census District 108-30". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
2. روسو, رابرت. "بحران آذربایجان در ۱۳۲۴". اطلاعات سیاسی اقتصادی (in Persian) (۱۸۱–۱۸۲): ۶۸–۷۷. مهر و آبان ۱۳۸۱ شماره ۱۸۱ و ۱۸۲، به همت دکتر عبدالرضا هوشنگ مهدوی
3. "The Political Graveyard Panama". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
4. "Foreign relations of the United States, 1947. Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union Volume IV 1947 - UW-Madison Libraries". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
5. "United States Department of State / Foreign relations of the United States, 1947. Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
6. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union, Volume IV". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
7. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI, Part 1". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
8. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI, Part 2". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
9. "Foreign relations of the United States, 1951. Asia and the Pacific (in two parts) Volume VI, Part 1 1951 - UW-Madison Libraries". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
10. Rossow, Robert (1956). "The Battle of Azerbaijan, 1946". Middle East Journal. 10 (1): 17–32. JSTOR 4322770. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
11. Robert Baker, William. THE TRIUMPH OF DIPLOMACY. JAMES BYRNES AND THE IRAN CRISIS OF 1946. San Francisco California: San Francisco State University. p. 173. August 2016
12. خاماچی, بهروز. شهر من تبریز (in Persian). تبریز: ندای شمس. p. ۱۲۱-۱۲۲. ۱۳۸۶
13. Hess, Gary R. (March 1974). "The Iranian Crisis of 1945-46 and the Cold War" (PDF). Political Science Quarterly. 89 (1): 117–146. doi:10.2307/2148118. JSTOR 2148118.
14. Rossow, Robert (1956). "The Battle of Azerbaijan, 1946". Middle East Journal. 10 (1): 17–32. JSTOR 4322770. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
15. روسو, رابرت. "جنگ آذربایجان". مجله خاورمیانه (in Persian). ۱۳۲۵
16. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Near East and Africa, Volume VII" (in Persian). Retrieved 4 February 2022.

External links

• Foreign relations of the United States (375 Issues) - UW-Madison Libraries
• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
• Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War The United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945-1952