IOR/L/PS/10/1270

The volume contains papers, mostly correspondence and India Office minute papers, regarding the withdrawal from Persia [Iran] of the Indo-European Telegraph Company and the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD).

It includes papers relating to the following:

• The decision of the Indo-European Telegraph Company to withdraw from Persia because of loss of revenue due to wireless and other causes
• The effect on the communications of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf of the withdrawal from Persia of the IETD and the Indo-European Telegraph Company, and the importance to HMG of securing the retention of the cable stations in the Gulf and the Jask-Gwadur line
• The desire of HMG to temporarily postpone the transfer to the Persian Government of the apparatus of the Bushire wireless station until reconstruction of the Bahrein station had been carried out
• How HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran, should respond in the event of representations being received from the Persian Government in connection with the withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Company from Persia
• The transfer to Imperial and International Communications Limited of the Persian Gulf Cable System, and the transfer of the IETD telegraph lines in Persia, connecting Tehran with the Persian Gulf cables and with India, to the Persian Government
• Negotiations between the British Government and the Government of India on the one part and the Persian Government on the other for a governmental agreement to settle questions in connection with the withdrawal of the IETD from Persia

The volume also includes some papers relating to the intention of the Indo-European Telegraph Company to withdraw from the Soviet Union on 1 March 1931.

The main correspondents are as follows: the Foreign Office; HM Minister, Tehran (Sir Robert Clive), and HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr); the Indo-European Telegraph Company Limited; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; and Imperial and International Communications Limited.

The volume includes some copies of documents in French, including correspondence between Sir Robert Clive and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The file 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.