Declaration of Teheran. December 1, 1943
We, the President of the United States of America, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, have met in these four days past in this capital of our ally, Iran, and have shaped and confirmed our common policy.
We express our determination that our nations shall work together in the war and in the peace that will follow.
As to the war, our military staffs have joined in our round-table discussions and we have concerted our plans for the destruction of the German forces. We have reached complete agreement as to the scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from the East, West and South. The common understanding which we have reached guarantees that victory will be ours.
And as to the peace, we are sure that our common cause will make it an enduring peace. We recognize fully the supreme responsibility resting upon us and all the United Nations to make a peace which will command good will for the overwhelming masses of the peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror of war far many generations.
With our diplomatic advisers we have surveyed the problems of the future. We shall seek the cooperation and active participation of all nations, large and small, whose peoples in heart and mind are dedicated, as are our own peoples, to the elimination of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance. We will welcome them as they may choose to come into the world family of democratic nations.
No power on earth can prevent our destroying the German armies by land, their U-boats by sea, and their war plants from the air. Our attacks will be relentless and increasing.
Emerging from these friendly conferences we look with confidence to the day when all the peoples of the world may live free lives untouched by tyranny and according to their varying desires and their own consciences.
We come here with hope and determination. We leave here friends in fact, in spirit, and in purpose.
Signed at Teheran. 1 December 1943 Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
Source: Donald G. Bishop, ed., Soviet Foreign Relations: Documents and Readings (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1952), pp. 86-87.