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Enclosure in No. 1.
Minister of Finance to Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
(Translation.) . 27, 1932.
THE Persian Government have repeatedly informed the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company that the D'Arcy Concession, dated 1901 a.d ., does not safeguard the
interests of Persia, and that it was necessary to place the basis of the relations
between the Imperial Persian Government and the company, as soon as possible,
on a new basis which would provide for the real interests of Persia. The defects
and shortcomings of the D'Arcy Concession and its disagreement with the
interests of Persia, as has been repeatedly pointed out, admit of no doubt
whatsoever, and, of course, the Persian Government cannot legally and logically
consider itself bound by the provisions of a concession which, was granted prior
to the establishment of the constitutional regime, in the manner in which such
concessions used to be obtained and granted in those times.
However, the Persian Government, in the hope that the oil company would
take into consideration the needs of the time and the present position of Persia
and secure her interests in accordance with these needs, has so far refrained from
exercising its right to cancel the D'Arcy Concession. Unfortunately, in the face
of the patience displayed by the Imperial Persian Government, the oil company
not only has taken no practical step to safeguard the interests of Persia, but the
more the Anglo-Persian Oil Company increased its expansion and development
the more Persian interests became endangered. Therefore, the Persian Govern
ment has lost hope of achieving the object which it had in view, that is to say, of
attaining this object by means of negotiations with the company, and therefore
realises that the only way to safeguard its rights is by cancellation of the D'Arcy
Concession, and this Ministry, in accordance with the decision of the Imperial
Government, notifies you that as from this date it has cancelled the D'Arcy
Concession and will considerit as void.
At the same time, as the Persian Government has no other intention except
to safeguard the interests jof the country, should the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
be prepared, contrary to the past, to safeguard the interests of the country in
accordance with the view of the Persian Government, on the basis of equity and
justice, and offer necessary securities for the safeguarding of those interests, the
Persian Government will not, in principle, refuse to grant a new concession to
that company.
HASAN TAQI ZADEH.
(Seal of the Ministry of Finance.)
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