IOR/L/PS/12/2193

The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence concerns the following:

• the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf;
• Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic Convention (1882) and the Arms Traffic Convention (1925);
• the right to inspect third party shipping, and to verify the flags flown by vessels in the Persian Gulf;
• previous negotiations with Anoushirvan Khan Sepahbodi, and the proposals submitted by him on 24 April 1933;
• the subsequent withdrawal of those proposals by the Persian [Iranian] Government;
• a new Persian proposal, presented on 30 May 1934.

The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office, HM Representative at Tehran, the Secretary of State for India, and the India Office Political Department. The file also contains communications received from the Persian Government, and a draft of the proposed agreement (folios 41-45). The formal British response can be found at folios 12-13.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).