'File 12/2 Treatment of Baharna in Persia' [‎3r] (5/440)

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they are free to some and go and they are treated
with justice and consideration, in fact with kindness•
The lot of the 3aharna living in the Persian
towns of Moharaerah, Hashah etc. is very different.
These people, subjects of H. E. Shaikh Hamsd, are
deliberately onpressed by the Persian Government
which makes every possible effort to force them to
renounce their n tionality. They are threatene
with forcible conscription and made to wear a foreign
heed dress which is repugnant to them. Owing to
their ill treatment many have fie i to Iraq and at
present an embargo has been placed upon their coming
to Bahrain to visit their hems villages and their
relations.
It may be argued by the ersian Govern _ /their
long residence in Persia they have forfeited their
nationality. There is no such assumption in the
case of innumerable Persians long resident in Bahrain.
B. S. Shaikh Hamad believes that some representa
tion was formerly made to the Persian Government on
this subject, but with slight effect. He thinks
perhaps that the position now calls for the adoption
of a somewhat different policy by the Bahrain Govern
ment towards the Persians living in Bahrain. Persians
would no longer be appointed or elected on public bodies,
their schools, if allowed to continue, would be subject
to inspection and the control of the Department of
Education, the wearing of Pehlevi hats would be dis-
to