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Reports on the borders with Iran 1933
IJA 2101
Report Related to Iranian Attacks
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This is an Iraqi government report titled “Standing Report Related to the Iranian Attacks During 1933, Summary.” The reports contain summaries of disputes and clashes between Iraqi and Iranian forces stationed near the border.
AI en Translation, Pages 1-25
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4 List of incidents related to Iranian aggressions during the year 1933 Incident Sequence | Incident Date | Incident Summary 1 | 3/10/1933 | When the Iraqi men named (1) Khudayr bin Ramadan (2) Abdul Rasul bin Sanad (3) Abdul Ridha bin Sanad were heading in their boat from the village of (al-Dawrah) toward the village of (al-Makhrak) And while they were passing by the Customs of al-Dawrah, they were stopped by Iranian Customs officials (Khazalabad). When the mentioned individuals did not stop, the Iranian Customs officials fired several shots toward them, which did not hit any of them, but they soon fell into the hands of the mentioned officials who detained them throughout that night and released them in the morning when they found no smuggled goods with them (Our letter No. S/216 - and 5/3/1933) and (The Mutasarrifiya letter addressed to the Interior Ministry No. 4456 on 5/8/1933). 2 | Late 1932 but | While the members of the al-Bawarin police outpost were on patrol at a site called (Shilhat al-Aghwat), they met three palm grove guards who informed them that a boat in the Khayyin River the correspondence began in the year | (The divider between Iraq and Iran) was anchored on the Iraqi side containing smuggled goods. They reached it at 11:20 PM, and upon arrival, the boat owners threw themselves into the river where 1933 | they took refuge within the Iranian borders. The boat remained anchored until the police and guards approached to bring it to the al-Bawarin outpost, but they were soon surprised by the Iranian Customs director named Yusuf Baluch along with couriers, some security soldiers, and a section of the residents of those areas. They demanded the boat and to relinquish it, even though it was found in Iraq. When the police answered them that the boat was found on the Iraqi side and cannot be given to them before completing the formal processing of the case, the Customs director began insulting the police officers and fired a shot from his rifle at them, and instructed his group to fire bullets as well. They fired about twenty shots toward the police, but the police did not return fire for fear of escalating the situation. On this basis, the Iranian Customs director instructed those with him to cross onto the boat and bring it to the Iranian side, and thus the matter was completed (Our letter S/132 on 3/22/1933 addressed to the Mutasarrifiya). 3 | 3/25/1933 | The head of Abadan Customs named Brunner Khan and his head of penalty named Mirza Ja'far and three Customs couriers violated the sanctity of the Iraqi borders, crossed Iraqi waters, and reached the Iraqi coast where the ship repair factory is located within the borders of the Kingdom of Iraq. There they began searching the place and what was in it, and they seized goods said to be smuggled, which were fabrics and shoes belonging to some Iranian Bedouins. They returned seizing the money and the Iranian Bedouins after their operation took about an hour and a half (The Mutasarrifiya letter No. 3435 on 4/11/33 and our letter No. S/276 dated 4/16/33, a copy of it to the Director General). 4 | 7/4/1933 | Three Iraqi persons: (1) Kann bin Khudayr (2) Rahima bin Tu'ayma (3) Abdul Hussein bin Khudayr were traveling in a boat attempting to smuggle a quantity of sugar to the Iranian coast. When the Iranian patrol sensed them, they turned back toward the Iraqi borders after the Iranian patrol showered them with a hail of bullets. One of them, Kann bin Khudayr, was wounded severely in his chest, and the other two fled to an unknown destination after the boat anchored on the Iraqi shore and the wounded man fell unconscious in the boat. During the incident, suspicion fell on one of the Iranian Customs couriers who was on the Japanese ship anchored in Iraqi waters, where shots were also fired from the deck of the ship. He was brought to court, which acquitted him and set him free. (Our letter No. S/523 on 7/10/33, a copy of it to the Director General). 5 | 7/18/1933 | While Sheikh Thamer, the mukhtar of the Iraqi village of al-Sulaymaniyah, and the director of the Shatt al-Arab sub-district were touring the Iraqi al-Du'ayji area, Iranian soldiers took advantage of Sheikh Thamer's presence near the car that contained the rifle of the sub-district director within the Iraqi borders. They arrested him along with the rifle of the sub-district director and sent him under guard to Khorramshahr, and his case was not settled until he escaped from there (Our letter No. S/554 on 7/20/33, a copy of it to the Director General). 6 | 2/18/1933 | The Iranian patrol was touring in its boat in the Shatt al-Arab near Abadan and met four Iraqi persons residing in Kut al-Zain: (1) Sayyid Hashim Sayyid Hassan (2) Darwish bin Abboud (3) Karim bin Mohammed (4) Aziz bin Mohammed. It stopped them and began searching them, finding four permits for carrying weapons in the possession of the first, so it seized them along with one dinar and asked them to accompany it to the Iranian shore with the intention of terrorizing them so they would leave the dinar and permits. They did not accept, and when the patrol saw their persistence, it released them after returning what it had seized (Our letter No. 7499 on 6/10/33) copy of it to the Director General. 7 | 16/17 Muharram 352 | While the Iraqis Laidh bin Ati, Jawad bin Hani, and Sayr bin Muslim were heading to Iranian lands for the purpose of earning a living, and before reaching the borders of Iran, they stayed in al-Du'ayji within the Iraqi borders, they encountered two mounted Iranian soldiers carrying weapons. The two soldiers wanted to bring the Bedouins with them by force to the outpost, where one of the soldiers struck one of the Bedouins with the butt of his rifle and wounded him slightly after firing a shot at him that did not hit him. The case ended with the individuals escaping from the two soldiers' grip, and the investigation proved that the soldiers entered Iraqi territories (Our letter No. 6921 on 6/1/33, a copy of it to the Director General). 8 | 12 Dhu al-Hijjah year 351 | An Iranian patrol intercepted the boat belonging to Hammoud bin Hassan while it was sailing near al-Faw in Iraqi waters, because its owners were trying to reach al-Faw to restock some supplies.
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( 2 ) There were two men in the boat named Balbul bin Saleh and Abdullah bin Hussein when the patrol arrested them along with the boat and took them to Iran (Our letter No. 4624 on 15 / 4 / 33, a copy of it to the Director General). | | Iranian customs officials arrested Jaber bin Ahmed and Khudair bin Aboud, both Iraqis, while they were heading to Fao to sell wood and took them with them to the Iranian lands (Our letter numbered 7725 on - 15 / 4 / 33, a copy for the Director General). | 3/4/1933 | 9 While the ship belonging to Abdul Latif bin Khalid al-Kuwaiti was sailing in Shatt al-Arab to bring water from it to Kuwait, it was stopped by the disciplinary men of al-Saadouni post opposite the Iraqi village of Al-Maamer. Its owners did not stop it, and then two men from the disciplinary soldiers, Muhammad and Shaaban, came to the owners of the ship and began beating the ship's owners with rifle butts and seized a watch with its chain, ten rupees, a quarter of an oqiyyah of tea, two and a half oqiyyahs of sugar, and two dozen matches, and went ⟦on their way⟧. The victims, upon consulting the Fao center, were sent to the doctor for treatment (Our letter No. 11531 on 2 / 9 / 33, a copy of it for the Director General). | 17 / 18 - 8 - 33 | 10 One of the Iranian security soldiers named Suhar trespassed on the Iraqi border, coming to the village of Sayyid Nour, where he seized ten cows from the mentioned village and took them to the village of Sayyid Baqir located on the Iranian border. Upon the news reaching the Shalamcheh police, they were unable to pursue the mentioned soldier due to his prior fortification within the Iranian border; however, Sayyid Nour went to the village where the soldier left the cattle, recovered them, and handed them over to their owners (Our letter numbered 9874 on July 29, 1933). | 23/7/1933 | 11 Iranian Al-Saadouni customs officials fired shots on 12 / 5 / 33 at a boat that was traveling in the Shatt heading towards the Iranian side, and the shots almost reached the houses located on the Iraqi shore, which suggests that the customs men were near the Iraqi shore. The boat disappeared into one of the small rivers branching from the Shatt al-Arab on the Iraqi side without being caught by the Iranian men (Our letter numbered 6673 on May 27, 1933). | 12/5/1933 | 12 The Shalamcheh police heard the whizzing of bullets flowing from the side of the Iranian border. Upon investigating the incident, they found a person named Abdul Sayyid bin Abbas the Iraqi, whose statement clarified that he and a companion of his named Thamer bin Tafak were riding two donkeys and going from Nahr Jassim to Karun (Iran) for the purpose of harvesting the farms there. While they were walking in the desert, they were surprised by four armed persons who fired shots at them from their rifles. These two persons then fled, and the found person (Abdul Sayyid) was unable to identify the persons who attacked him and his companion due to the fall of night, and he does not know the fate of his second companion, but after a while he found the two donkeys ⟦grazing⟧ in a farm inside Fao. | 13 / 22 - 6 - 33 | 13 A person ⟦named⟧ Aqrab bin Maseer was found wounded in the village of Kut al-Kawwam, which is of the Iranian Arabs, and stated that on 18 / 9 / 33 he and companions of his left Iraq, and when they crossed the Iraqi border by a distance of a mile and a half, four armed persons riding donkeys came out at them and fired ⟦at them⟧, so one of the shots hit him in his neck and his companions scattered from him. Then, following this report, one of his companions, Shahin bin Badr, arrived, having been hit ⟦by a shot⟧ in his right hand, confirming his companion's claim, but they did not know the persons who attacked them. These two persons were sent for treatment in the hospital (Our letter numbered 12453 on September 23, 1933). | 19/9/1933 | 14 A group of Siba police went out in a motorboat to carry out regular patrols in Shatt al-Arab. When the boat approached the Iraqi village of Subhan and was in the middle of the Shatt, one of the Iranian soldiers began following it, walking on the edge of the Shatt and challenging the boat's men with insults, saying (Wisa Badr Dog Arab Wisa). This biting insult did not shake the courtesy of the patrol men who continued their way, maintaining order and calm. It appears that this stance enraged that soldier, and he began opening the bolt of his rifle at times and closing it at other times, threatening them with death until the boat reached the Al-Qitaa post, when the mentioned soldier left them (Our letter numbered 9443 on 20 / 7 / 33 addressed to the Mutasarrifate). | 3/7/1933 | 15 AA