IOR/L/PS/10/1256

This volume contains correspondence regarding wide-ranging negotiations that took place between the Persian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British Legation in Tehran, the aim of which was the agreement of a bilateral treaty between the two governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues.

The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials, but it also contains copies a limited amount of correspondence that was exchanged between British and Persian Government officials, some of which is in French.

In addition to this correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:

• 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached in July 1933' (folios 390-463)
• 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached on October 10th, 1933' (folios 309-389)
• 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of the Fifth Meeting of the Sub-Committee held in the Room of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the House of Commons, on Tuesday, November 28th, 1933, at 3.0 p.m.' (folios 223-238)
• 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached on November 30th, 1933' (folios 131-214)
• Foreign Office Memorandum, 1934 'Proposed Instructions to His Majesty's Minister at Tehran Regarding the Negotiations with the Persian Government for a General Treaty' (folio 62)
• 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Draft Minutes of the Sixth Meeting of the Sub-Committee held at the Foreign Office on Monday, January 22nd, 1934, at 3.0 p.m.' (folios 52-58).

The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.