"ملف ٨/٣ شؤون أولاد الشيخ خزعل." [و‎‎١‎٢] (٥٠٨/٢٣)

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our lives and properties for their victory and honour, and I
warn you to he careful not to he deceived by the plots of^the
intriguers, their enemies® I trust you will not fail me in
what I think of you my brothers.
May God help you.
(Signed) CHASSIS EL SHAIKH KHAZ 1 AL•
Translation.
H.E.The British Ambassador, Bagdad.
Your Excellency,
We beg to submit to you our grievances as under :=
We the Arabs of Khuzistan are the residents of this
country for generations, and as the sons of our forefathers we
beg to’ lay before you our case with the hope thatyou will
give it your due consideration with the kindness and justice
which are your characteristics.
Your Excellency, we are the descendants of Arabs who were
residing in this territory, which fact is well-known to you.^
We therefore submit our grievances to you on finding and seeing
that the British Forces have entered these parts to safeguard
the rights of Arabs as a whole of which we are a part and
parcel." Your Excellency, our interets are the same as yours at
the present juncture, and as we are from among the Arabs who
have'been given a definite promise for the safeguard of their
rights, we join them and approach you for the purpose. We
complain to you because we had independence and freedom and
we never naid any taxes, nor did we yield to the Iranian Govern
ment. We yielded only to our own Heads of Tribes and took
orders from them and th^y v/ere, Haj Jaber, Shaikh Maza'l and
lastly his brother Shaikh Khaza ? l Khan. During this short
period,i.e.from 1925 when Shaikh Khaza ! l was taken to Tehran,
to August 1941 we have suffered oppression, tyranny, and
persecution at the hands of the tyrant Pahlavi Government
which killed our tribal Hedds and fathers, photographed our
women folk, shed the blood of our' children and violated our
religion. We beg of your esteemed justice to be kind to us
and have us freed from the Iranian and Pahlavi oppressions,
which are void of kindness and pity in their hearts. We take
take this opportunity to submit to the British Government
and to the British nation our deep thanks and regards at this
happy occasion on theentry of your Forces into our country*
Their entry has saved us from oppression and subjugation at
the hands of Pahlavi Government and their associates the
Nazis.
v our Excellency, we hereby assure you of our sincerity
and Place at your disposal our lives and property to win the
war and to further your cause. Your Excellency, we tnerefore
beg of you kindly to intervene on our behalf and assist us by
requesting the British Government to have us released from
this oppression, and to treat us like our Arab brothers m
the Persian Gulf,i.e. Bahrain, Kuwait, etc. and take us under
vour protection and appoint on us a head whom you consider
best end who is sincere to you. We solicit you will accept
this our request. In the end we pray for your victory over
your enemies.