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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [16r] (31/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. 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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courtesy time should be allowed for any communication that Feroughi might have
made to his Government, as the result of the conversation at Geneva, to take
effect.
153. His Majesty’s Government, though anxious about the early arrival
of the Persian navy in the Gulf, expressed their willingness to consider an
alternative draft note. A full discussion followed, in the course of which
«^fcis Majesty’s Minister expressed the opinion that as few people in Persia, or
presumably in England, knew that there were any negotiations in progress at all,
and as they would know nothing about a breakdown unless one side advertised
the fact, the question of who nominally broke off the negotiations did not appear
of material importance. Finally, a formal reply to the Persian notes of the
20th and 22nd September was delivered on the 10th November, by which time
the Persian navy had reached Mohammerah without affecting the negotiations in
any way. This note stated that His Majesty’s Government had understood
from the outset of the negotiations that the Persian Government were agreeable
to meeting their wishes over Hen jam, that His Majesty’s Government
unhesitatingly acknowledged Persian sovereignty at Hen jam, where they had
never sought more than the continuance of certain harmless and modest
recreational and fuelling facilities in return for an annual rent, that it was
therefore clear that the Hen jam issue was inseparably connected with the
negotiations, and that the negotiations could not continue unless the request for
immediate evacuation were withdrawn. The note concluded with an assurance
of the earnest desire (which they believed to be reciprocated) of His Majesty’s
Government to establish Anglo-Persian relations on a basis of cordial
co-operation.
154. His Majesty’s Minister was authorised in delivering this note to make
it clear that His Majesty’s Government had no further general concessions to
offer, but to hint at the possibility of reciprocal facilities for the Persian navy
at Bombay or elsewhere. Teymourtache expressed pleasure at the note in general,
but took some exception to the statement that negotiations could not be continued
unless the demand were withdrawn. This could not, he said, be reconciled with
the explanations he had given, but he was told that the note was a reply to a
formal unqualified request for withdrawal and no objection to it could be raised
on that ground. He repeated that the Persian Government were prepared to
meet His Majesty’s Government over Henjam if only the treaty as a whole were
of a nature to satisfy Persian public opinion that the Persian claim to Bahrein
had not been surrendered for nothing. He went on to maintain that the British
concessions, Sirri, Basidu, the Zahedan Railway, were not “ concessions ” at all;
he admitted that the remission of three-quarters of the war debt was of
importance. His conclusion was, however, that the war debt was not enough
and that the refusal of His Majesty’s Government to consider any of his
proposals for “ compensation,” even in a veiled form, was most disappointing.
155. In this same interview (the eleventh of the year) he harked back to a
bilateral arms traffic agreement and asked whether this had been considered.
His Majesty’s Minister replied that after some discussion with the Foreign Office
he had submitted a draft convention for their consideration. Teymourtache then
said that he too had prepared a draft, and produced a document which was in
its main lines very like the Slave Trade Protocol, but had the drawbacks of
describing territorial waters as 7 kilom. wide, and of making His Majesty’s
Government declare that the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
was not in the special maritime zones
laid down by the International Convention of 1925. He was told that this
would be submitted to His Majesty’s Government. The Legation draft, it may
be added, followed the Slave Trade Protocol, but added a provision whereby,
subject to certain conditions, warships of the one party might search vessels flying
the flag of the other, provided a reply to a telegraphic enquiry had elicited the
fact that no warship of the other party was available for the duty.
156. His Majesty’s Minister also took the opportunity of communicating a
revised version of the draft notes regarding the visits of warships produced by
Teymourtache at the fourth meeting. This version contained a provision ^ the
effect that Persian local authorities should receive instructions to the effect that,
if a British warship appeared in their port, they should assume in the absence
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
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 (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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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 321; 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.
The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, 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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