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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [216v] (432/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the 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. .
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from the Iranian Government to the effect that if negotiations as regards the
frontier disputes were successfully concluded, the Iranian Government would be
prepared, after signing that treaty, to sign also the Middle-East Non-Aggression
Pact, and then proceed without delay to negotiate agreements with Iraq on a
variety of other subjects.
171. Accordingly after Dr. Naji-al-Asil had signed in Tehran in July the
Frontier Treaty and the Four-Power Pact and taken a few days holiday in
Mazanderan, he returned to Tehran and continued work with his Iranian
colleague on a draft treaty for the Pacific Settlement of Disputes. This was
signed on the 24th July.
172. The only at all unusual feature appeared to be article 20, which
provided that the treaty should apply as between the contracting parties even
when a third Power had an interest in the dispute. His Majesty’s Minister
asked the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs if this was not a novelty and
likely to lead to a complicated position if the third Power found itself unable
to accept the settlement reached by the other two. M. Samiy also thought that
the article was a novelty and did not muchjhke it; he said that it had figured in
the original draft initialled in 1935, and he had not liked to pursue his own
inclination to drop it. M. Samiy did not attach much importance to the article,
and this proved also to be the attitude of the Foreign Office in London.
173. Apart from this, the treaty, to the satisfaction of Iraq, provided in
certain cases for reference to the League of Nations, and to the Permanent Court
of Justice at the Hague.
174. Dr. Naji-al-Asil on his return from Mazanderan also signed a Treaty
of Friendship with Iran providing for diplomatic reciprocity and laying down
that seven further agreements on other subjects should be concluded as soon as
possible. The seven subjects were defined as :—
(1) A good neighbourly Convention to provide for frontier security and the
settlement of frontier disputes.
(2) Extradition Treaty.
(3) Treaty as to Establishment and Nationality.
(4) Commercial Treaty.
(5) Convention on judiciary assistance.
(6) Consular Convention.
(7) Convention regarding Posts and Telegraphs.
175. One point of interest to His Majesty’s Government in the United
Kingdom arose in connexion with this Treaty of Friendship. When it had come
up previously in tentative form in Bagdad, His Majesty’s Government had been
anxious that the Iraqi Government should ensure, possibly by an exchange of
notes, that the Iranian Government should recognise that the representative of
His Majesty’s Government at Bagdad was entitled, under the terms of an annex
to the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, to be perpetually dean of the Diplomatic
Body. Therefore, His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad, on learning that this
treaty was about to be signed, telegraphed to His Majesty’s Minister in Tehran
suggesting that he should see the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs did not
overlook this requirement of His Majesty’s Government. This reminder arrived
after the text of the treaty had been agreed upon between Dr. Naji and M. Samiy.
His Majesty’s Minister mentioned the point to Dr. Naji, who replied that he had
explained to M. Samiy the provision of the annex in question, that the Iranian
Government understood the position, but that the question would not arise as the
latter did not intend to raise the status of their mission in Bagdad. The above
was oral; nothing in writing passed between the two Governments on the subject.
176. In the course of the year the Irano-Iraqi Provisional Agreement of
December 1932 for the Settlement of Frontier Incidents was renewed for two
further periods of six months from the 7th December, 1936, and the 7th June,
1937, respectively.
Military Questions.
177. Early in the year His Majesty’s Legation received a copy of a despatch
addressed by His Majesty’s Ambassador in Bagdad to the Foreign Office
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 321; 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.
The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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