Editing Tehran Conference (section)

{{Short description|1943 meeting of the Allied leaders}}
{{About|the Allied World War II meeting in 1943}}
{{Infobox summit meeting
| name                     = Tehran Conference
| other_titles             = {{nobold|{{noitalics|"Eureka"}}}}
| image                    = Teheran conference-1943.jpg
| alt                      = 
| caption                  = '''Left-to-right:'''<br />Soviet leader [[Joseph Stalin]], American president [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], British prime minister [[Winston Churchill]] 
| country                  = {{flagicon image|State flag of Iran (1933–1964).svg}}&nbsp;[[Allied-occupied Iran]]
| date                     = 28 November – 1 December 1943
| motto                    =
| venues                   = [[Embassy of Russia, Tehran#Tehran Conference|Embassy of the Soviet Union]]
| cities                   = [[Tehran]], Iran
| coordinates              = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LON|region:XXXX_type:event|display=inline,title}} -->
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| participants             = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Soviet Union (1936 – 1955).svg}}&nbsp;[[Soviet Union]]<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg}}&nbsp;[[United States]]<br />{{flag|United Kingdom}}
| chairperson              = 
| follows                  = 
| precedes                 = [[Yalta Conference]]
| keypoints                  = Consensus to open [[Operation Overlord|a second front]] against [[Nazi Germany]] by 1 June 1944
}}

The '''Tehran Conference''' (codenamed '''Eureka'''<ref name="WSC_Closing the Ring">{{cite book| last = Churchill| first = Winston Spencer| year = 1951| title = The Second World War: Closing the Ring| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston| page = 642}}</ref>) was a strategy meeting of the [[Allies of World War II]], held between [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and [[Winston Churchill]] from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was the first of the [[List of Allied World War II conferences|Allied World War II conferences]] involving the "[[Big Three (World War II)|Big Three]]" (the [[Soviet Union]], the [[United States]], and the [[United Kingdom]]) and took place at the [[Embassy of Russia, Tehran#Tehran Conference|Soviet embassy in Tehran]] just over a year after the [[Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran]]. The meeting occurred shortly after the [[Cairo Conference]] was held in [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]] for a discussion between the United States, the United Kingdom, and [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]] from 22 to 26 November 1943. The Big Three would not meet again until 1945, when the [[Yalta Conference]] was held in [[Crimea in the Soviet Union|Crimea]] from 4 to 11 February and the [[Potsdam Conference]] was held in [[Allied-occupied Germany]] from 17 July to August 2. Notably, President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived on the [[USS Iowa (BB-61)|USS Iowa]].

Although the three leaders arrived in [[Tehran]] with differing objectives, the main outcome of the meeting was a British and American commitment to opening [[Operation Overlord|a second front]] against [[Nazi Germany]], thereby forcing it to pull military assets away from the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] with the Soviets. In addition to this decision, the Tehran Conference also addressed: the Big Three's relations with [[Turkey]] and [[Pahlavi Iran|Iran]], as the former was being pressed to enter the conflict and the latter was under Allied occupation; operations in [[World War II in Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and against [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]; and the envisaged settlement following the expected defeat of the [[Axis powers]]. A separate contract also saw the Big Three pledge to recognize Iranian independence.