File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎39r] (71/558)

PERSIA—SISTAN.
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i t • t iqi 7 if a rlprided to construct £i teTnporQry
. frorBaftto Saidabad (Sirjan). An agreement was
telegraph line i i.:r or i in 1921 the construction of the
. b i • iqoo Vmt was never ratmed. m m , a n.
Binned in 19~o, 1 . oVioridmied and a revised drait
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thir was atilt under discussion at the end oi ttutdr
iqoq a Telegraph Conventiont was concluded between Persia and
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February 1921 (Appendix No_XXV^_
— ' SlSTAN.
• •. i nf Persia and Afghanistan to sovereignty over Sistan
The rival claim9 °* P ductive jf disputes which more than once
were for man y y P { {riend l y relations between the two States,
threatened a ru P tura , ^cially under the Safavian dynasty, a
Sistan was ‘ n an « en t 0n the de P ath of Nadir Shah it became an mte-
dependency of 1 ers ^ em ire found ed by Ahmad Shah Abdah.
gral portion of the Du ^ • cm pi re , Sistan became dependent
On the dismemberment of t ince was i 80 l at ed from the rest of
at one time on Herat, wh A ndence m0 ,. e or less prolonged,
Afghanistan, with intervals o P lternatel Although no inter-
and later still ““ Herat and Jan^ t]ie administra tion of Sistan
ference was exercised by n n \ e( [ to the diminution of
the dissensions among ^^'^th^ KoJiandn Khan in 1855, Ali
Afghan influence and, after t , , n • e years previously
Khan Sarbandi who had been ‘- f ^' ^^JlCsia in th'e hope of
as ruler of south-western S-tan made overt a power whlchj £rom
enjoying a greater amoun p enforce obedienC e. Ali Khan was
its distance would be less _ married a princess of the royal family,
received with honour a > allowance of 4,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a year: a
and returned to Sistan with an bestowe d on Ibrahim Khan of
sum of 3,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a year was also bestow ^ tlie otll er Chiefs.
Chakansur, the principal Chief o ^ undertook to prevent Baluch
In return for these subsidies t e i Khan was assas-
,.iic, ,™. r-"“ lb.® «t»% «•
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by the British Government: and an intim. c l a imed the
veyed to the Persian Government when in 862 the Shah ^ ^
execution of the 7th article of the Treaty of 1857 (Ao- A
In October 1930 His Majesty’s Government
informed the Persian Government that the whole
of the Indo-European Telegraph Department
organisation except the Cable Stations in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Persian section of the
Jask-Gwattur line would be withdrawn from Persia
on the 1st March 1931. This decision had been
taken in connection with the negotiations then
proceeding for the conclusion of a general
treaty, and in response to the repeatedly
expressed wishes of the Persian Government;
the six months’ notice provided for in the
Department’s concessions was not, therefore,
given.
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The Indo-European Telegraph Company, mhtcft
for several years had been working at a loss,
decided to withdraw at the same time, and so
informed the Persian Government in December
1930.