Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'

Content

The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The correspondence concerns the following:

• the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
• Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic Convention (1882) and the Arms Traffic Convention (1925);
• the right to inspect third party shipping, and to verify the flags flown by vessels in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
• previous negotiations with Anoushirvan Khan Sepahbodi, and the proposals submitted by him on 24 April 1933;
• the subsequent withdrawal of those proposals by the Persian [Iranian] Government;
• a new Persian proposal, presented on 30 May 1934.

The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office, HM Representative at Tehran, the Secretary of State for India, and 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 file also contains communications received from the Persian Government, and a draft of the proposed agreement (folios 41-45). The formal British response can be found at folios 12-13.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).

Extent and format

1 file (58 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 58; 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.

Written in

English and French in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/12/2193

Former external reference(s)

Coll 7/25

History of this record

Date(s)

19 Dec 1933-4 Jan 1935 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

DiplomacyWeaponsUnlawful trafficking

Places

Persian Gulf

People & organisations

Foreign OfficeSecretary of State for India, United KingdomGovernment of Iran, Pahlavi dynastyHM Ambassador to Iran

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