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The following informstion has been received by me from
an unimpeachable source:
The Press In Tehran are giving much publicity to the
arrival there of a person claiming to be the representative of

the people of Bahrain. His name is Abdullah Zireh and he is
reported to speak Persian with an Arabic accent, He appeared at
the session of the Majlis on Sunday but was not permitted to
enter the House although he talked with various Deputies outside
it. He asked that Bahrain should be occupied immediately by
Persian troops and that elections should be held there for a'
Deputy for the Majlis. Hikmat the President; of the Persian Majlis
is said to have told Zireh that although the Persian Government
were most anxious to recover Bahrain it was too early to t.alk of

sending troops there, When Zireh was called upon to adduce
proof that he represented the people of Bahrain he' is'.si ad to have
replied that he could not produce any proof as the organisation he
represented was an underground one. There is considerable excite-
ment over the Bahrain question especially as it is coupled with
news recently received that Persian troops have reoccupied the

island of Ashuriyah which is off Bandar Shah in the Cappian after
it has been under Soviet control for six years, The Press calls
upon Government to take similarly decisive stemps to recover
Bahrain and states that the Prime Minister has already entered
into negotiations with the British on this subject.

24th January, 1948