President Franklin Roosevelt meets with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran to discuss military strategy and the possibility of opening a second front in Europe. Iran was important to the Allies because it allowed the American and British supplies to be passed to the Soviet Union.
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