Abstract: The file is concerned with proposals for the development of civil aviation services connecting Iran (frequently referred to as Persia) with Iraq and India. It therefore includes correspondence related to proposed aerial surveys of possible routes. The question of whether three airfields at Zahidan, Mirjarah, and Kerman – built in consequence of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran – should be retained for future civil use is also addressed by some of the correspondence.Some of the material in the file examines the interest of the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States in Iranian civil aviation.A report titled ‘Air Transport in Persia – 1944 and afterwards’ by Walter Leslie Runciman, Air Attaché at Tehran, has been included: see folios 119-129. An accompanying map illustrating proposed and existing air routes can be found on folio 130. The file also includes a couple of sketch maps: see folios 103 and 143.The most recent correspondence in the file is concerned with the re-establishment of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) services in 1946 between the United Kingdom (UK) and Tehran.The main correspondents are as follows: HM Ambassador to Iran (Sir Reader William Bullard), officials of the Air Ministry, officials of the Foreign Office, officials of the India Office, and representatives of the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.There is a gap in the file for the years 1942-43 for which no papers have been included.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 182; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence and related papers concerning the development of civil aviation in Persia (referred to as Iran from 1935), its primary focus being the activities of the German company Junkers. The file covers negotiations surrounding the grant of a five year concession to Junkers in 1927 for the provision of internal air services within Persia, and the failed negotiations surrounding an attempt by the Company to renew the agreement in 1932. It therefore also contains correspondence about the subsequent withdrawal of Junkers from Persia, and subsequent attempts by Luft Hansa to replace Junkers. Correspondence in the file also discusses a proposal from Imperial Airways to establish a Trans-Persian route between the United Kingdom (UK) and India; this is mainly related to whether the experience of Junkers should be allowed to discourage this proposal.To a lesser extent the file also covers the establishment of air mail and passenger services between Tehran and Baghdad; this ranges from a initial proposal from Airworks Limited in 1932 to the eventual establishment of a service by Iranian State Airways in 1938. Also briefly discussed is a proposal — briefly advanced by the North West Indian Trading Company — from Captain Louis Murphy in 1926 for the establishment of an air service between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Meshed [Mashhad]: see folios 155-9.The French content includes a draft contract between the Government of Persia and Junkers dated June 1925 (see folios 205-16), a copy of the final contract (see folios 139v-143) dated 9 February 1926, and a copy of a notice on changes to Junkers' Persian air services dated 17 October 1931. Occasional extracts can also be found in French.The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Tehran, officials of the Air Ministry, and officials of the Foreign Office. The correspondence is periodically forwarded to the Under-Secretary of State for India by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 285; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top centre of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence, reports and other papers submitted by British officials in Iran, relating to the movements and actions of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, and labour legislation passed by the Government of Iran. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3404). The file includes:Two reports written by the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan (Captain Giles Frederick Squire). Both are entitled ‘An appreciation of the political situation in East Iran’, and dated 31 May 1938 (ff 59-65) and 6 December 1938 (ff 48-54) respectively.A report describing the Shah’s visit to Ahwaz [Ahvāz] in March 1939 (ff 39-43).A copy of a report, written by the Press Attaché at the British Legation at Tehran (Ann Katherine Swynford Lambton), dated 1 May 1941, on the state of public opinion in Iran in response to events in the Second World War in Iran’s neighbours, Iraq and Russia (ff 33-34).Papers relating to new labour legislation introduced by the Government of Iran in 1946, including a translation of regulations concerning the duties, organisation and procedure of the Supreme Labour Council (ff 18-19), and a translation of minimum wage regulations (ff 8-12).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 66; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The file covers the arrangement for dismissing local employees in case of British evacuation from Iran.The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Government of India, and the Treasury.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 11. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence stemming from an enquiry made on 2 August 1935 by the Acting Consul at Kermanshah, Charles Alexander Gault, to HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson, as to whether traders and
ulemain the town could take bast (asylum) in the Consulate. Other papers in the file include a circular despatch from the Counsellor at the British Legation in Tehran, Nevile Montagu Butler, dated 14 April 1936, containing instructions to consular officers on how to handle asylum requests in Persia [Iran], and a note from the Iranian delegation to the League of Nations dated 28 January 1937, stating that the ancient right of bast in Persia has ‘not for a long time past existed in Iran.’The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Note that folios 5 and 6 appear in incorrect order.
Abstract: Correspondence and other papers concerning the Persian [Iranian] Government’s renewed desire in 1937 to finalise a treaty of friendship between Britain and Iran (also referred to in the file as the Anglo-Persian Consular Convention). The papers, chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Horace James Seymour, the Foreign Office, and the India Office, cover: outstanding points remaining to be agreed prior to the signing of any treaty, including the withdrawal of Iran’s claims to Bahrain, Tamb [Greater Tunb] and Abu Musa, and the demarcation of the Perso-Baluch frontier, between Iran and British Baluchistan, now part of Pakistan; the British Government and Government of India’s reluctance to commit to a demarcation of the Perso-Baluch frontier, in part because of the financial implications of such a project; the despatch of an Iranian technical commission between February and May 1938 to recommence a survey of the Perso-Baluch frontier that was originally started in 1932; arrangements for the Government of India’s cooperation with the Iranian survey party, with the support of the Political Agent at Chagai; reports on the Iranian survey party’s activity and progress; a confidential entitled ‘Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa and Sirri’ written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office, and dated 24 August 1928 (ff 45-48); the return of the Iranian survey party to the frontier in late 1938.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 137; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to His Majesty’s Secretary of State for India regarding the ‘Defence Regulations made under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council 1939’. The regulations apply in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Muscat and Oman. The file also contains a report on a visit to Iraq made by the Head of the Middle East Intelligence Centre between 12 and 15 October 1939. The report is issued by the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, and it covers the following subheadings: the Objects of the Tour; the Preventive Intelligence Arab World [PIAW] in Iraq, Iran, and the Persian Gulf; the Situation in Iraq; the Propaganda in Iraq, Iran, and the Persian Gulf; and Propaganda General.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 24; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
According to the colophon (f. 117v), copy completed in the hand of ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Yazdī in 1240 AH December 1824-5 AD.The text is followed by a short text with the title "Suʼāl" (p. 118r-121r), written by the same scribe.Written in one column, 24 lines per page, in black and red ink, framed within triple golden and grey lines. First leave illuminated.Bound in black leather, gilt.MS Persian 36. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.