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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

PERSIA. November 28, 1027.

CONFIDENTIAL Skction 2.

[E 5063/184/91] No. 1.
M. Khan Mossacd to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—(Received Soeember 28.)
Persian Legation, London,
Your Excellency, A'occmbcr 20, 1927.
I HAVE Inc lionour to stale that the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs has
recently addressed a note to His Britannic Majesty’s Minister ut Tehran, of which
the following is a translation :—
“ 1. According to information received by the Persian Government, a treaty
was concluded between His Britannic Majesty and Ibn Baud and signed at
Jeddah on the 20th May last, of which article 6*is as follows
Ilis Majesty the King of the Hejaz and of Ncjd and its dependencies
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undertakes to maintain friendly and peaceful relations with the territories
of Kuwait and Bahrain, and with the Sheikhs of Qatar and the Oman
Coast, who arc in special treaty relations with His Britannic Majesty’s
Government.’
“2. The sovereignty of Persia over the Island of Bahrain being well
founded, the Imperial Persian Government, at the time a special treaty was
concluded between the British Government and the Sheikh of Bahrain, right­
fully protested, and Ix>rd Clarcodon, in a letter dated the 20th April, 18G9,
addressed to the then Persian Minister in London, formally acknowledged the
justice of that protest.
" 3. You will realise that the insertion of article 6 in the above-mentioned
treaty, in so far as it relates to Bahrain, is averse to the territorial integrity of
Persia, and, consequently, incompatible with the friendly relations subsisting
between two neighbouring countries.
"A. I therefore earnestly protest against the insertion of the above article
in the treaty, and shall look forward to suitable measures being taken, ns soon
as practicable, by His Britannic Majesty’*' Government, with a view to its
elimination.
“ 5. I have to .add further that, Persia being a member of the League of
Nations, the Imperial Persian Government, conformably to article 10 of the
Covenant, which guarantees the territorial integrity of its members, have
forwarded a copy of their note to the League of Nations, with the request that
their protest may receive due consideration."
I beg leave to bring this matter to the notice of your Excellency for your kind
consideration.
I have, &c.
HOVHANNES KHAN MOSSAED,
Persian Minister.

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