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Coll 30/79 'Persian claim to 10 mile limit for Persian territorial waters.' [‎213v] (426/461)

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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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detail, and in Mr. Croft*s view it is unlikely, though
not impossible, that the full text of the British reply
will, if circulated at all, he circulated in the
immediate future, so far as the Persian negotiations
are concerned, if its circulation was delayed until
the summer - as seems probable - we should be
uncommitted by it on the present question and its
reactions could be neglected.
3. This apart, it is for consideration how far we
are actually committed in the present connection by
the wording of the s ections of the memorandum quoted tyy
the Foreign Office. The wording of those sections is,
it is true, very general; the type of situation which
they contemplate is not very clear (though it is
presumably that created in America by liquor smuggling!);
and the Persians might no doubt base on them an
argument of the type suggested by the Foreign Office.
I venture to suggest, however, that the nature and
basis of Persian contraband difficulties in the Gulf
would hardly justify an appeal for a special
arrangement under the terns of the sections in
question. It is a matter of common knowledge that the
seriousness of those difficulties on the Persian side
of the Gulf is the result first of the absence of
effective control on land, coupled with the corruption
of the local officials, and secondly of the inefficiency
of the Persian Preventive Service. I submit that these
can hardly reasonably be adduced as a basis for the
grant by H.M.G. of a wholly special concession of a
type which, as a general rule, they are most reluctant
to grant except under the strongest pressure, and I
suggest that we may take this line in replying to the
Foreign Office. I understand d.o. that the Admiralty
though a final decision has not been taken, feel
strongly departmentally the undesirability of an eight-
mile/

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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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