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Coll 17/15(1) 'Perso-Iraq Relations: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab' [381v] (774/961)
The record is made up of 1 volume (476 folios). It was created in 1 May 1933-15 Mar 1935. 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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u A member of my staff recently asked the British Adviser in the Iraqi
Ministry for Foreign Affairs for his opinion on the present Persian diplomatic
offensive against Iraq. Mr. Edmonds replied that he did not regard the Persian
t£ bombardment ” very seriously. He maintained that the bubble of Persian
bombast could easily be pricked by any Iraqi negotiator who resisted the
temptation to follow the Persian lead into a bog of vague generalisations. The.
Persians could always be silenced by a challenge to substantiate, geographically
their stories of raids and rebellions directed from Iraqi territory by pointing
out the exact location of Persian posts in indisputably Iraqi territory, and by
indicating the precise manner in which the water supply of the Iraqi frontier
towns and villages was being diverted out of pure spite. Unfortunately, however,
there exist few Iraqi officials who could marshal their facts, and who understand
the superiority in an argument of a concrete fact over an abstract generalisation.
Mr. Edmonds added, however, that the Persian efforts to seduce the Iraqi frontier
tribes from their allegiance was a serious aspect of the situation. It appears
that the Persian policy (compare the Persian Minister’s note of the 30th April,
which forms the last enclosure to Dr. Damluji’s letter of the 10th May) is to
bring the most extravagant accusations against tribal leaders on the Iraqi side
of the frontier, and to goad the Iraqi Government, by menaces, into arresting
and otherwise molesting numbers of their own subjects who have committed no
crime in Iraq. These persons do not realise that the Persian Government is at
the bottom of their misfortunes, and when they are released or escape from an
Iraqi prison they are thoroughly disaffected against the Iraqi Government. The
Persian frontier authorities then cause them to be informed that they will be
welcomed on Persian soil, granted a full amnesty, if necessary, for their misdeeds
on Persian soil, and given material assistance to found a new home. Mr. Edmonds
believes that this policy has met with some success, and that at the present time
a part of the population on the Iraqi side of the frontier are disaffected against
the Government and look upon Persia as their friend.
6. The visit of the Iraqi Director-General of Police to the north-eastern
part of the Iraqi frontier (reported in paragraph 3 of my despatch No. 264 of
the 10th May on the Auroman situation) resulted in a recommendation that
fourteen new police posts should be immediately established on the frontier in
the sector between a point north of the town of Suleimanieh and a point east of
Halabja. This plan is doubtless the one for a better frontier patrol to which
Dr. Damluji refers m the fourth paragraph of his letter of the 10th May.
. His Majesty s Ambassador recently suggested to King Ghazi and the
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The volume contains papers regarding relations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq. It primarily concerns the frontier delineated by the 1913-1914 Boundary Commission, in particular Persian claims over areas of the Shatt el-Arab, and rights to oilfields in the Naft Khana [Naft Khāna] or Khaniqin [Khāniqīn]area. The papers document renewed negotiations over the border, and include discussion of the following topics: Iraqi concerns over Persian military activities conducted in Iraq; Persia's refusal to recognise the validity of the 1914 Frontier Delimitation Protocol; attempts to redraw the frontier at the Shatt el-Arab along the thalweg [valley way], as opposed to the medium filum aquae ; proposals to revive the Shatt el-Arab Conservancy Board Scheme; and proposals for an agreement to regulate the exploitation of the oilfields in the transferred territories on the frontier near Khanqin, including the proposed creation of a special zone. These papers primarily consist of correspondence between the following: HM Ambassadors at Baghdad, Teheran and Italy; the 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. Political Department; the Foreign Office (principally Sir John Simon, and J C Sterndale-Bennet); the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs; and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
In 1935 the Iraqi Government formally raised the question of the frontier with the Council of the League of Nations, and sought a Court ruling as to the validity of the 1914 Boundary Protocol. The Italian delegate to the League (Baron Pompeo Aloisi) was designated Rapporteur to the negotiations, and the volume contains correspondence between the Foreign Office and HM Ambassador in Rome, regarding a proposed Italo-Iraqi Treaty of Friendship, proposals regarding the frontier made by Aloisi, and general Italian influence over Iran and Iraq. The volume also includes copies of memoranda and minutes circulated by the League, in addition to correspondence regarding the negotiations in Geneva and Italy, and documents from the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East.
The volume includes a divider giving a list of correspondence references found in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 volume (476 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 472; these numbers are written in pencil 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 front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves, have not been foliated.
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- Coll 17/15(1) 'Perso-Iraq Relations: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
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- 381v:382r, 396r:400v
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- Al Damluji, 'Abdullah Beg
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