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Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil Concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’ [184r] (368/377)
The record is made up of 1 file (186 folios). It was created in 5 Feb 1946-10 Dec 1947. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Northern Persia is in essence nothing more than
defence of monopoly position of British oil concession
in Persia and that deputies in Majlis who were in favour
of rejecting Soviet proposals acted simply as advocates
of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Persian arguments that
concession in south was granted in pre-constitutional
period and that Persia is at present refusing concessions
to foreign firms are contradicted by signature of con
cession agreement with Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1935
on basis of existing Persian constitution and by grant
of oil and mining concessions to foreign companies right
down to 1944.
6. All these facts show that Persian ruling
circles have been unwilling to take account of Soviet
interests and have discriminated against Soviet Union
and that their policy in question of oil concessions
in Persia for the last twenty years has been permeated
with hostility towards Soviet Union and has aimed at
provoking conflict between U.S.S.R. and other great powers.
They cannot therefore be left out of account in view of
their great importance in development of Soviet
Persian relations.
[Copies sent to Ministry of Information]
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the efforts of the Soviet Union to sign an oil concession agreement with Persia [Iran] covering northern Iran. The papers cover: the Iranian Prime Minister Ahmad Qavam’s involvement in the carrying of a bill for a joint Iranian-Soviet oil company to the Iranian majlis; details of the negotiations for an oil concession in northern Persia, and the geographic area under consideration, with map (f 156); Prime Minister Qavam’s presentation of his report on the oil concession to the Iranian majlis in October 1947; the Iranian Government’s rejection of Qavam’s bill, as outlined in an official text published in the Iranian press (English translation, f 37); telegraphic correspondence from the British Embassy in Moscow, reporting on articles appearing in the Soviet press ( Pravda , Izvestiya ) commenting on the oil concession, the Iranian Government’s actions, and a perceived growth in American [United States of America] influence in Iranian Government policy.
The file’s principal correspondents are: the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, succeeded in 1946 by John Helier Le Rougetel; the British Chargé d’Affaires in Moscow, Frank Kenyon Roberts; the British Ambassador in Moscow, Maurice Drummond Peterson; and the Foreign Office.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (186 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 188; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3544
- Title
- Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil Concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:6v, 8r:19v, 21r:25v, 27r:36v, 38r:39v, 41r:63v, 65r:66v, 68r:71v, 73r:81v, 83r:85v, 87r:120v, 122r:133v, 135r:150v, 152r:155v, 158r:187v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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