'File 12/2 Treatment of Baharna in Persia' [‎197r] (393/440)

con si derat i on:
if v; e
your favourable consideration: if vie are your protected subjects
protect us like one of yourselves and relieve those of us, the
Bahrainis in Iran, who are being threatened to lose their nation
ality and adopting the Iranian nationality. In fact some of them
have been already forced to obtain Iranian nationality papers and
have adopted Iranian nationality.
We have two difficulties in our affairs namely:-
(1) . At the expiry of two years we have to renew our passports
in Bahrain or a t Muha mmerah. We cannot visit Muhammerah as the
Iranian authorities would not endorse visas on our Banrain pass
ports and if we were to get the renewal in Bahrain it will take
at least two months oefore this could be done, and that on payncnt
of Rs. 5/- each.
(2) . We cannot get our nationality endorsed for us unless we
sent somebody on our behalf to do this for us then he himself
alone will get his paper endorsed. These are things which are
hard for us to do, because there are amongst us persons who cannot
do the voyage for want of time and others who do not possess money
enough to p a y the expenses of the voyage. we referred, on this
subject, to the British Consul, B a sr a h, and he informed us that
he could not issue us nationality papers which we can get only in
Bahra in.
We request you to give our case your kind considerations
and solve these difficulties tne important one of which is the
endorsing of our passports by the Iranian authorities. \t the
same time we request you to inform us through H. B. M * s Consul,
Ba srah.
(The following persons have affixed their signatures and those
marked (*) have also affixed their seals to this petition.)
Say id Muhsin son of Sayid Has a n
*H a ji Ubaid son of Kaji Abbood al Kadhim.
Mahdi son of Ha j i Ashur .
Sayid Hasan son of Sayid Majid
Darwish Ali
Mulls Ali son of Ali