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'File 3/4 Relations with Persia' [119r] (237/274)
The record is made up of 1 file (135 folios). It was created in 31 Dec 1928-20 Aug 1949. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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COPY
No.232
Copies to : INDIA No.95
BUSH IRE fio.93
Sir,
British Legation,
TEHRAN.
4th May, 1934
With reference to my despatch No.131 of March 17th
last enclosing a copy of a letter which I addressed to the
Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs communicating to him
copies of certain treaties and agreements between His Majesty^
Government and the Government of India and certain Arab rulers,
I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying translation
of a reply from Mirza Bagher Khan Kazemi.
2. This letter is couched in such oracular language
that it is not easy to discover its exact meaning. Kazemi
quotes from his note referred to in Mr. Mallet’s despatch No.506
of October 31st Last, a note in which he appeared to have admitted
that there had at least been private conversations on the subject
of our relations with the Arab rulers, but at the same time he
now appears to deny that either he or any of his staff ever
suggested that the Persian Government were not already in full
possession of all information regarding those rulers. Mr. Mallet
recollects most clearly that on various occasions last summer
Anurshirvan Khan Sepfhbodi and Shayesteh, after emphasising
the private nature of their enquiries, asked him about the
agreements governing our relations with the Arab rulers. It
was indeed as a result of these enquiries that Mr. Mallet|tcT~~^
you his telegram No.246 of September 30th last. Mr. Mallet’s
recollections of his conversation with Kazemi on October 15th
on the same subject is set forth in his despatch No.506 of
October 31st last.
3 « t Whether or not, either privately or officially the
Persian Government made such enquiries is, however, of no great
importance compared with the fact that in my letter of March 17th
I gave Kazemi d6cuments which evidently have caused him some
embarrassment. The mere sight of them has apparently been
sufficient to compel him to remind me of a series of notes in
which the Persian Government have insolently asserted that they
cannot admit any sort of intervention on the part of His
Majesty's Government in regard to the Arab rulers on the opposite
shore of the Periian Gulf. From this Kazemi goes on to reassert
not only the Persian claim to Bahrain, but apparently to other
places vaguely referred to as’etcetera*.
4* Kazemi letter appears to me to need a sharp retort,
and if you approve, I propose to reply in the following sense
The Persian Government assert that they cannot take
cognisance of our treaties and agreements with Arab rulers.
The only effect of^persistence in this attitude will, in fact,
be that it will be impossible for the Persian Government
to make any form of communication to 'these xxiJizx rulers
who have entrusted their foreign relations to His Majesty's
■ Government. Such a self denying ordinance is clearly a
matter of no concern either to us or to the rulers. On
the other hand we are by treaty bound to represent to the
Persian or any other foreign government that may be
concerned any matter which the ruler of one of the Arab
principalities in exclusive treaty relations with us may
request us to raise with that Government. The mere fact
Right Honourable
Sir John Simon, G.C.S.I.,
etc,, etc., etc.,
The Foreign Office.
/that the Persian
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This file concerns Britain's relations with Persia (also referred to as Iran in some of the correspondence). It includes the following:
- cases of Persian customs authorities reportedly inhibiting (and in some cases preventing altogether) the passage of persons travelling between Persia and Kuwait, allegedly because of the Persian Government's claim that Kuwait is part of Persian territory;
- a copy of a non-aggression clause, written in 1930 and taken from a draft of a proposed treaty between Britain and Persia;
- copies of correspondence between the 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. and the Foreign Office regarding whether or not the rulers of Muscat, Bahrain, and Kuwait should cancel their respective existing proclamations that give Persian vessels rights to inspect Arab dhows outside Persian territorial waters;
- a copy of a draft of Iran's 1942 treaty of alliance with Britain and the Soviet Union;
- copies of correspondence dating from 1934 between the British Legation, Tehran, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [Sir John Simon], regarding Britain's response to the Persian Government's refusal to recognise certain agreements between Britain and the Arab rulers of the Gulf, which give Britain the right to represent the latter in their foreign relations.
Other subjects of correspondence include the anticipated revision in (1947) of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's concession of 1933 and the presence of Iranian Airways in Kuwait.
The principal correspondents are the following: the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait; the Secretary of State for India; the British Legation, Tehran; the 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. ; the Foreign Office; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Commonwealth Relations Office; the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ].
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- 1 file (135 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 137; 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. Two previous foliation sequences, both of which are written in pencil (the set from ff 1-136 are circled, the set from ff 4-122 are not), have been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- 'File 3/4 Relations with Persia'
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- front, front-i, 2r:27v, 29r:43v, 45r:52v, 54r:94v, 96r:96v, 98r:111v, 115r:136v, back-i, back
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