The assassination was scheduled to take place Tehran, the capital of Iran, after Allied leaders announced plans to meet there to hammer out the strategy for the war against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. ..…
There were also British commandos and a small number of American Rangers. Eight destroyers were assigned to the operation, along with 74 Allied air squadrons. . ..…
According to British Rodney Atkinson, he was expelled from Allied countries during World War i on suspicion of helping the superior-general of Jesuits, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, plot the creation of Central Europe Catholic federation. ..…