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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

541. IOR/L/PS/12/3499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3499
Title:
Coll 28/93 ‘Persia. Persian Legation in London.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran and the Foreign Office in London. The correspondence concerns appointments to the Persian Legation in London: in 1929, the appointment of the Governor of Khorassan [Khorāsān] Sayyed Hasan Taqizādeh (sp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1929-8 Feb 1944
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

542. IOR/L/PS/12/3502

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3502
Title:
Coll 28/96 ‘Persia. Judicial. Persian law regarding smuggling. Position of foreigners.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the compatibility of legal safeguards in relation to the expiration of the Tariff Autonomy Treaty, agreed between the British and Persian Governments on 10 May 1928, and a new law passed by the Government of Iran in 1936 that authorised the use of the death penalty agai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Dec 1936-17 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

543. IOR/L/PS/12/3509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3509
Title:
Coll 28/98 ‘Persia. Grant of asylum to political refugees.’
Scope & Content:
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 ulema in the town could take bast (asylum) ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1935-18 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

544. IOR/L/PS/12/3510

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3510
Title:
Coll 28/99 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty negotiations, 1937– (Perso-Baluch Frontier Demarcation)’
Scope & Content:
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 a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1935-17 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

545. IOR/L/PS/12/3513

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3513
Title:
Coll 28/102 ‘Persia. German activities in Persia and the Middle East.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the presence of Axis-country nationals in Persia [Iran] and Iraq at the beginning of the Second World War. Subjects covered include: German activities in Iraq, reported by the British Ambassador at Baghdad, Basil Cochrane Newton; Germans in Persia, inc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1939-6 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

546. IOR/L/PS/12/3514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3514
Title:
Coll 28/103 ‘Persia. Perso Russian Relations’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers, some marked Most Secret, concerning relations between the Soviet Union and Persia [Iran]. Much of the file concerns the British Government’s concerns about Soviet interference and influence in Persia, particularly at the end and in the aftermath of the Second World War...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1940-16 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

547. IOR/L/PS/12/3515

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3515
Title:
Coll 28/104 ‘Persia. Hormuz. Salt. Hormuz Red Oxide’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Government of India’s attempts to obtain control over rock salt production on the island of Hormuz [Jazīreh-ye Hormoz], partly in order to thwart Japanese attempts to establish their own concession on the island. The file includes a copy of the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Apr 1941-25 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (116 folios)

548. IOR/L/PS/12/3516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3516
Title:
Coll 28/105 ‘Iran. Transit of German railway coaches to Iran via Iraq.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning possible arrangements for Iranian railway carriages to be commandeered for the transport of British troops in Iraq. The correspondence covers: the likely reluctance of the Government of Iran to allow such an arrangement; the impact of any arrangment on relations between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1941-1 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)

549. IOR/L/PS/12/3517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3517
Title:
Coll 28/106 ‘Persia. Infiltration of British agents.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, some marked Most Secret, discussing ways in which British agents could be deployed in Persia [Iran] and other countries in the region (Iraq, Afghanistan) to counter German influence during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: how British firms operating in Iran cou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1941-27 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

550. IOR/L/PS/12/3518

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3518
Title:
Coll 28/107 ‘Persia (Iran) Movements of the ex-Shah.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the movements of the former Shah of Persia [Iran], Reza Shah Pahlavi, in the wake of his enforced abdication by the British Government in September 1941. The papers cover: arrangements for the removal of Reza Shah from Persia; discussion amongst British officials over w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Sep 1941-3 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (178 folios)