IOR/L/PS/12/4101

The file concerns the dispatch of consular and diplomatic mails by steamer and air mail service to and from Persian Gulf.

The file covers:

• Transmission of sealed bags, containing official correspondence, to consular officers in Persia [Iran]
• Negotiations with Persian Government for the transmission of consular mail to British representatives through Persian post offices
• Bags for Tehran Legation
• Persian diplomatic courier regulations, routes, and visas for couriers
• Government of India willing to grant reciprocal treatment to Persian consular mails to and from India
• Methods of forwarding secret documents to consular posts in East Persia
• Postal service between India and Iran
• Despatch of mails to Kuwait
• Sketch of Persian Gulf routes, 1944 (f 94).

The file is composed of correspondence between: the British Legation at Tehran; the British Embassy at Baghdad; the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf; the British Consuls at Meshed [Mashhad], Sistan and Kain, Kerman, Birjand; the Government of India; the Persian Legation in London; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Secretary of State for India; the Foreign Office; the India Office; the General Post Office, London; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Persia; the Postmaster-General at Bombay; the Political Agent at Kuwait; the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Air Ministry; the Ministry of War Transport; and British India Steam Navigation Company.