IOR/L/PS/12/4135

The file concerns the reorganisation of telegraph communications in Iran after 1935.

The file contains:

• Closure of Naval Station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū], and of British Cemetery and Henjam Wireless Station, 1935
• Negotiations with Cable and Wireless on their proposal to close of Henjam, Jask and Charbar [Chābahār] stations, 1935
• Minutes of Committee of Imperial Defence, Imperial Communications Committee meetings discussing telegraph communications in the Persian Gulf, 1935
• Desire of Persian Government to purchase wireless systems at Henjam, Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh], and Bushire, 1935-37
• Closure of wireless station at Bushire, 1936-37
• Renting of Cable and Wireless's building at Jask, 1936
• Repairs to cable ship at Jask, 1937.

The file also contains, on folio 381, a map showing 'The Proposed Bahrein T Piece', illustrating an extension of cable communication connecting Bushire and Bahrain, 1935. There are some documents in French: a letter written by the British Legation at Tehran to the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs of the Government of Iran, and an extract from Le Journal de Tehran.

The file is composed of correspondence between: the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary of State for India; the Admiralty; Cable and Wireless Limited; the Treasury; the British Legation at Tehran; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Iran.