'ملف رقم 19/109 V (C 32) العلاقات البحرينية مع القوى الأجنبية الأخرى' [ظ‎‎١‎٤‎٧] (٥٤٧/٣٠٢)

kind or on Tarious irregular documents 9 such as, travel
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passes, certificates of 'identity, pil 0 rim passes, etc. This
practice the Persian GoTernment have tht-mselves stopped and
they now insist on all foreigners being equipped with regular
passports. The 'Iraq passport requirements have also been
tightened up. It is largely in order to enable their
nationcils to fulfil the passport requirements of other neigh
bouring countries that the Bahrain Government and the Muscat
State have also tightened up their passport system and now
insist on foreigners being in possession of regular pass
port^ /ises by a ritish consulrr officer acting on behalf
of the Brhrain or Muscat Government in the ■ame way as they
used formerly to ^rant vis^s on behalf of 'Iraq ana iii^ypt
at places where those states had no consular representatives.
The Bahrain Government are therefore only doin G exactly what
the Persian Government have done and partly at any rate^
because the Persian Government have aone it.
5« The point at issue really is that the Persians will
not grant an exit vis#/ for persons proceeding to Bahrain but
will only grant an n llm we Khabar n « This is a document
authorising travel from one Persian port to another, and
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this document cannot be vise by a British consular officer
i or Bahrain, neither will the 1 ahrain Government admit its
validity as a passport. If however a Persian presents a
regular Persian passport and applies for a visa ^ot ahrain
it is eiiven to him. This Consulate-General has not
instructed the i esopotamia Persia Corporation not to accept
Bahrain! travellers for Basrah and elsewhere if they were
travelling on travel passes* The British India Steam
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