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Coll 30/79 'Persian claim to 10 mile limit for Persian territorial waters.' [22r] (43/461)
The record is made up of 1 file (229 folios). It was created in 19 Jan 1929-3 Aug 1938. It was written in English and French. 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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M. 01192/39.
I 1 £9
I i i— ^Military Branch,
Admiralty, S, W. 1.
»yj O 9 /Blst Pebruai*y, 1939.
COyglJSWTlAL.
Dear Baggallay
I return the map which accompanied your letter
S.36/38/34 of ?th February about the ,-tfiglo-Iranian Conqpany^
new concession.
such a small scale as to be of little use, though as far as
can be seen, the Company's application seems to be generally
unobjectionable from the Admiralty point of view. There are,
however, two points referred to in the letter of the 8th
December from the Company to the Foreign Office which we
find somewhat disturbing :-
(a) At one point the boundary is apparently defined
in relation to territorial waters "as laid down
by Iranian Law", though it is simultaneously
fixed by the geographical co-ordinate.
(b) The Company say quite definitely that at the mouth
of the Shatt, the boundary they have drawn crosses
at the two angles the boundary line adopted by
Departments in this country, of which a sketch was
put at the Company's disposal.
The use of the phrase "territorial waters" mentioned
at (a) above may in fact be quite harmless, but, without
seeing the full context, it is impossible to be certain.
importance. Although it has been decided here that the best
division between Iraqi and Persian waters at the mouth of the
Shatt would be a line equidistant from both coasts, the
Iranians, so far as we know, have never been acquainted with
our views and obviously this is a case where sleeping dogs
would best be left to lie. On the other hand, if the
Persian Government grant a concession relating to the bed
The map of the area forwarded by the Company is on
As regards (b), this cannot but be a matter of some
H.L. Baggallay, Bsq.,
Foreign Office,
S.W. 1.
of
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The file concerns the extent of territorial waters claimed by the Government of Persia (also referred to as Iran). The British Government held that in the absence of international agreement, three miles was the extent of territorial waters, but the Persian Government claimed distances of up to twelve miles at various times. The issue is discussed by various British officials, especially the Foreign Office, Admiralty, and HM Minister, Tehran. Folios 84-120 discuss Persian jurisdiction over the outer anchorage in Bushire. Folios 9-79 discuss the concession area held by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, in view of the fact that potential oil fields lay under the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , partly beyond the three-mile limit, but within the twelve-mile limit claimed by the Persian Government.
The French language content of the file consists of six folios of diplomatic correspondence between British and Persian officials.
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 (229 folios)
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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 commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 230; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-229; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Coll 30/79 'Persian claim to 10 mile limit for Persian territorial waters.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:8v, 9v:12v, 13v:14v, 15v, 16v:79v, 84r:163v, 167r:173v, 177r:224r, 226v:230r, 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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