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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [149r] (297/644)
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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271. Negotiations eventually only began in Bagdad in the latter part of
December, and even then the Iranian Minister in Bagdad said that he was still
without definite instructions in regard to British participation.
272. His Majesty’s Minister therefore called on M. Kazemi just before
—.Christmas and enquired what the actual position was. The latter replied that
M. Samii had been informed that the Iranian Government had no objection to
British participation in the negotiations, but later admitted in answer to a direct
question that this did not include their consent to the signature of the convention
by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom. He added that it had
been agreed between himself and Mr. Eden at Geneva that the convention would
only be an annex to the main Treaty of Friendship, and could therefore only be
signed by Iran and Iraq. He had agreed, however, that the third member of the
Board should he British. On His Majesty’s Minister’s replying that he knew
that the view of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom was that
negotiations should take place on the basis of the 1935 draft tripartite con
vention, M. Kazemi said that he had never seen it and that his Government had
not got it.
273. At the very end of the year His Majesty’s Minister received a telegram
from the Foreign Office stating that M. Kazemi’s allegations were quite untrue
and instructing him to explain the position to the latter, leaving him under no
illusion as to the unpleasant impression which his adherence to his present
attitude would produce on His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom.
274. Meanwhile a meeting took place in Bagdad on the 30th December
between Yasin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and M. Samii, at which M. Samn produced
the story which M. Kazemi had told His Majesty’s Minister, and suggested that
there was now no need to invite British delegates to take part in the negotiations.
To this Yasin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
replied that the Iraqi Government had decided only to
negotiate a Conservancy Convention on condition that His Majesty’s Govern
ment in the United Kingdom were a signatory, and that they could not alter their
decision unless His Majesty’s Government intimated that they did not wish to
participate.
275 M Samii then read a passage from M. Kazemi’s telegram conveying
strong advice to the Iraqi Government not to betray their interests into British
hands by allowing His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom to
participate on an equal footing with the riparian States in the control of the
Shatt-el-Arab This provoked an outburst from Yasin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
that the Iraqis
were nottuch fools as to prefer to share control with the Shatt with the Iranian
Government, who coveted some of their territory, rather than with His Majesty s
Government in the United Kingdom, who were their allies and had common
interests to safeguard.
276. The year thus ended stormily.
(2) Iraqi Legation in Tehran.
277 In March 1935 the Iraqi Government decided to appoint a new
inister to the Iraqi Legation in Tehran which had for some time been m the
nds of an amiable^but Sot very forceful Charge d’Affaires. At the same time
ey appointed as counsellor the then Director-General m the Iraqi Ministry foi
ireign Affairs.
278 Both the new Minister and his counsellor showed themselves to be
very friendly to His Majesty’s Legation and consulted them constantly on
questions of mutual interest.
(3) Treaties and A greements.
279 The Provisional Agreement of 1929 was renewed in February, but was
'll,owed to lapse in August. The attitude of the Iraqi Government was that the
Iranian Government should take the initiative and that, unless and until ey
proposed a renewal, the Iraqi Government would take no action in the matter.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- 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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