مجموعة ٢٩/ ١٩ "إجراء تعيين الموظفين القنصليين في بلاد فارس والاعتراف بهم: القاعدة الفارسية التي تنص على قنصل واحد في كل منصب؛ جوازات السفر للمسؤولين العسكريين المُعينين في بلاد فارس" [ظ‎‎١‎٦‎١] (٦٤٣/٣٢٢)

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with military titles to consular posts in Persia; wnile
it appeared for some time that they might he intending
to challenge the employment in Persia of officers of the
Foreign and Political Department in any consular capacity.
The question was not pursued, hut tne Foreign Office, in a
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despatch of 13th February 1930 (P.1235/30 flaggea / on the
file helow) to the Minister at Tehran, clearly explained
the international position in a question such as this,
emphasized that the Political Department was essentially
a civil and not a military service, and that the military
ranks held hy its members were entirely lacking in any
present military significance, and instructed the Minister
to use such further arguments as he thought best to ensure .
that if the unreasonable requirement that all consular
officers should belong to regular diplomatic or consular
services was admitted on our side, the Persian Government
on their side should at least admit the perfectly reasonable
interpretation that officers of the Indian Political Department
should be regarded as such a service.
4. In 1931, consequent on the display by colonel Noel of
the Political Department,, then Consul at Keriran, of a degree
of active interest in the improvement of the countryside within
his consular area which perhaps afforded some excuse for Persian
suspicions, his recall was askea for by the Persian Government
(compare Tehran despatch 153 of 1931, on P.2659/31 flagged).
While H.k.G. did not agree that the Persian Government had any
right to demand Colonel Noe1 1 s recall, arrangements were made
for his transfer to a post in the North West Frontier Province.
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(in November 1933, when the Foreign Office informed us, in
connection with discussions about the removal of the x'iesidency,
that wi-rtte the Persians could, if they wished to endeavour to
prevent the Consul General at Bushire from being the same person
as the Resident, “exercise their right to refuse the issue of an
Exequatur to any individual nominee without giving any reason,
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