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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎172v] (344/644)

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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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as a base for offences in Iran. In these circumstances it was suggested that the
following procedure should be adopted for the future :—■
(1) No further requests for extradition should be put forward either locally
or in Tehran.
(2) Routine requests for the return of stolen arms, camels, &c., should be
referred at the earliest possible moment to His Majesty’s vice-consul
at Zahidan, and should not be raised in Tehran at all.
(3) Only incidents possessing real importance or raising some question of
principle should be taken up by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
with His Majesty’s Legation.
This communication was read over to an official of the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs by the oriental secretary on the 15th October. No reply had been received
by the end of the year, though in a later conversation M. Ansarie said that he
hoped that the Ministry of War would agree to the suggestion that all minor
questions should be settled locally. Personally he thought that this was the only
sensible way of dealing with them.
59. Practically none of the many questions referred to His Majesty’s
Legation during the course of the year were of any importance in themselves,
but one case is perhaps worth mentioning in detail. Early in the year the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs stated that letters had been written by a certain
Mir Jan Khan, who was described as a second lieutenant in the British levies,
to an Iranian subject, Lashgar Khan Gumshadzai, inviting him to cross the
frontier and settle in British Baluchistan. The Ministry requested that action
should be taken to put a stop to such efforts to entice Iranian subjects from their
allegiance. The matter was referred to the Government of India, who replied
that no such person as Second Lieutenant Mir Jan Khan existed in British
Baluchistan, and that in any case Lashgar Khan and the Gumshadzais were
on account of their thieving habits not even allowed to enter British territory
unless they gave particularly sound security for their good behaviour. The
Ministry for Foreign Affairs were duly informed, but continued to insist that
such letters had been written, and claimed to have them in their files. M. Ansarie
even stated that the matter had been referred to the Shah, who had said that
some time ago when tribes in British Baluchistan had wanted to take refuge
in Iranian territory they had not been allowed to do so. His Majesty was
therefore surprised that the good neighbourly attitude of the Iranian authorities
had thus been repaid by attempts on the part of British officials to seduce Iranian
subjects from their allegiance. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs were accordingly
instructed to ask that the matter should be very carefully examined and to enquire
why such propaganda was being conducted.
60. As it seemed impossible to pursue further enquiries with regard to
the non-existent Mir Jan Khan, unless fresh evidence was produced, and as no
information existed in British Baluchistan to show that tribes settled there
had ever wished to take refuge in Iranian territory and had been refused
permission to do so, His Majesty’s Legation were instructed by the Government
of India to press for the loan of the letters in the one case and for some evidence
in the other. This was in August, but despite several reminders nothing further
had been received from the Ministry by the end of the year. 61 62
61. One other case deserves a brief mention. A caravan travellino- in
Iranian Baluchistan was robbed in February 1935, and two British subjects
were killed. The robbers fled across the frontier, where the authorities succeeded
in recovering some of the stolen property. Arrangements were at once made to
restore it, and it was handed over to Iranian officials at the frontier in March
1935. At the end of September 1936 it was discovered that no part of the
property stolen from the two murdered British subjects and subsequently
recovered had been handed over to their heirs. His Majesty’s Leo-ation
accordingly took the matter up with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and & asked
for an enquiry to be made.
(b) Incident at Gorich Kalag.
62. The Gorich Kalag incident (see paragraphs 189 to 197 of the annual
report for 1935) was allowed to fade gently into oblivion early in the year. Once
they had studied their maps, the Iranian Government realised clearly that Gorich

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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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