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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [185v] (370/644)
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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in November the Iraqi Minister was anxious to suggest to his brother some new
possible basis of settlement of the Irano-Iraqi dispute on lines not inacceptable to
His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, and he invited the Legation s
informal assistance, but by this time Dr. Naji already had in hand a reply to the
last Iranian note, and the Foreign Office informed His Majesty s Minister that
in these circumstances he need add nothing to the non-committal answer that he
had given to the Iraqi Minister’s advances.
192. Dr. Naji’s reply to the note of the 18th August followed the lines of
what Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had agreed with the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs. It
proposed that a treaty should be concluded embodying the existing frontier with
a rectification in the shape of an anchorage at Abadan ceded by Iraq, and an
agreement to continue negotiations regarding control of navigation and con
servancy in the Shatt. Dr. Naji told His Majesty’s Ambassador that he hoped
that the frontier question might thus be settled before March 1937 and the Non-
Aggression Pact signed. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr reminded him that, until the
navigation and conservancy problems had been settled, he should safeguard the
freedom of all ships at all times to navigate the ceded anchorage, and Iraq s right
to dredge it. Dr. Naji handed a note on the above lines to the Iranian Minister in
Jiagdad on the 28th November; he gave a copy at the same time to the Turkish
Minister, and asked that the proposals in it should be supported in 1 ehran by the
Turkish Embassy. The note contained a phrase safeguarding freedom of
navigation in peace and war through the anchorage ceded, but did not specify.by
the ships of what countries this freedom should be enjoyed; nor did the stipulation
that the signature of the treaty should be followed by negotiations for a river
convention contain any reference to His Majesty’s Government in the United
Kingdom participating in this convention.
193. Thus by the end of the year the Iraqi Government had still not put in
writing to the Iranian Government any phrase committing them to support full
British participation in control of the river, but His Majesty^s Ambassador
reported that Hikmat Suleiman and Dr. Naji (like Lasin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
before them) had assured Mr. Edmonds that they regarded such participation as
their only safeguard against Iranian trickery.
194. Assuming these assurances to be genuine, the relegation of the River
Convention to a later stage became a question of tactical expediency, as regards
which the views of Dr. Naji and the Foreign Office differed. The former had
seemingly been converted to Yasin Pasha’s views that once the frontier question
had been recognised the atmosphere would be much better for settling the regime
on the river. The Foreign Office felt that the soundest course remained to aim
at a comprehensive settlement and that the cession of an anchorage at Abadan
would give away the strongest lever in Iraq’s hands for securing the Iranian
Government’s acceptance of suitable conservancy arrangements.
195. Half-way through December the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs
informed His Majesty’s Minister that, even if the Iranian Government went to
the Hague Court and judgment were given against them, Iran would never
acquiesce in the present situation on the Shatt, and he repeated that his Govern
ment remained opposed to British participation in any convention respecting
navigation or conservancy of the river. Mr. Seymour held out no hope of His
Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom relaxing their insistence.
M. Samiy thought a frontier settlement might be possible on the basis proposed in
the latest Iraqi note, provided the size of the anchorage were satisfactory and
that certain points as regards the regime on the river could be settled. At one
point M. Samiy referred to the possibility that prolongation of discussions over
these details might affect relations between His Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom^and the Iranian Government on other questions.
196. It will be seen from the above, and particularly by comparing the last
Iraqi offer with that reported by Dr. Naji in the third paragraph of this section,
that, although no deadlock had arisen, little progress had been made by the end of
the year. It had been spent by the Iranian and Iraqi Governments mainly in
wrangling over the size, and more especially the width, of the frontier rectification
to be ceded in the form of an anchorage at Abadan; the inclusion or non-inclusion
of certain waters of the Karun and Bahmanshir in the scope of the proposed
River Commission, and in a somewhat mock-battle as to whether and in what
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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)
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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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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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