'File 2/9 Anti-British propaganda' [‎24r] (52/748)

Translation of an article which appeared in the
TT Ath Thaghr" newspaper of Basra, U 0 .S 6 I, dated the 16th
January 19 34*
THE PERSIAN JUIi* 1 QUESTION.
A HETORH TO AM GOT SET.
A geographical survey of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. shows
that it is surrounded on East, North and West by a littoral
of low lands which are not much above sea level, thus
rendering communication between its people so easy that
nothing seems to obstruct their intercourse save the
political position of their relative territories, religion
language, social manners and even geographical position
being on© and the same.
Tlie hinterland, however, have variant altitudes,
and son® are marked by marked features, especially the
eastern coast, on which a range of high mountains extending
fron Kermanshah to Baluchistan lies and rakes a natural
barrier, which divides it from the interior of Persia,
and which is traversed by a few gorges, the only routes
connecting the sea ports with the inlands towns.
After this short prelude w© may now turn to our
main subject. The English consider that the maintenance
of their influence in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. is most essential
for the defence of their great Indian Empire, and for
the preservation of their imperialistic prestige in the
East. Hence their ambit ions in the Gulf, which arise
from no desire to gain the mastery over certain economic
and commercial resources, as in other countries, but to
achieve certain political objects, which will ecntribute
to their military suzerainty and make all efforts to drive
them out of the Gulf absurd and most impossible.
It is nothing to be wondered at if the friends