ملف ١٩٢٢/٥٢٢، جزء ٧ "البحرين: المطالبة الفارسية بالسيادة عليها؛ مفاوضات المعاهدة الفارسية ١٩٢٩-١٩٣٠" [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٢] (١١٢٦/٦٠٨)

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Extract from the Iran, Sunday September 14th,1930. Ho*3529.
The leading article deals with the recent controversy
raised hy Persia in the League of lations over Bahrein and
the oil concession granted by the Sheikh of Bahrein to Major
Holmes. The incident, the paper says, began with the note of
the Persian Government to Oreat Britain dated some two years
by which Persia proved beyond all doubts her soverei gi
rights over Bahrein. Some months ago the oil concession
was granted to Major Holmes by the local Sheikh and Persia
protested at once against this unwarranted assumption of
authority by the Sheikho If British papers had not started
a loud clamour against the so-called unsubstantiated rights
of Persia over Bahrein, the Persian press would not have taken
up the matter in retaliation. The English press character
ises Persia*s efforts to assert her rights over a part of
her territory as ridiculous; the Persian press wishes to
know, with all due respect, on what grounds does Great
Britain claim a right of intervention in the affairs of
Bahrein and by what treaty or convention does Great Britain
maintain that Persia should relinquish her sovereign rights
over Bahrein ? To an unbiassed observer, it is still more
ridiculous to observe the silence of the British press in
the face of the violent language used by the Erench and
American press when the latter protest against the unflinchin,
coercion used by the British Government on Indians and
Egyptians vdio are patriotically striving to recover tneir
independence.
Extract from the Shafagh-i-Surkh, Ho*—
The paper deals in the leading article with the question
of Bahrein with vehemence. It gives a history of the contx^o-
versy and comments more or less on the lines of the paper
Iran