PSI: MORE ON IMMINENT MISSILE-RELATED TRANSFER TO

S E C R E T ANKARA 002838 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR NP/CBM, EUR/SE, EUR/PRA E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/18/2015 TAGS: ETTC IR PARM PREL TU MTCRE SUBJECT: PSI: MORE ON IMMINENT MISSILE-RELATED TRANSFER TO IRAN VIA TURKEY REF: A. STATE 90899 ¶B. ANKARA 2816 Classified By: Classified By: Ambassador Eric S. Edelman, reason 1.4 b/ d. ¶1. (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. ¶2. (S) MFA Under Secretary Ali Tuygan informed the Ambassador on May 18 that the shipment to Iran that he had raised the day before with Deputy U/S Nabi Sensoy had been stopped by Turkish authorities. ¶3. (S) Tuygan said that the British demarche had differed from ours. One point the British made was that in similar cases elsewhere, HMG had successfully convinced China to withdraw such shipments. Sensoy had called in the British Ambassador on May 18 to request that London and Washington work together to convince Beijing to withdraw this shipment. Tuygan relayed the same request to the Ambassador. ¶4. (S) Action request: We understand that an approach to the Chinese may already be under consideration in Washington. We request authorization to inform Tuygan of our decision to approach the Chinese once it is made and, assuming we move forward, of Beijing's response. EDELMAN