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Special Office 1940 Ministry of General Interior File Number: 54/42 C Title: Nationality and Immigration Subject: Granting visas to Iranian scholars Refer to 54/7 C
IJA 2087
Correspondence between the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Iraqi Consulates Regarding Iranians Traveling to Iraq
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This Iraqi government correspondence marked “Special Office” between the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iraqi consulates, and other offices regarding visa applications for Iranian scholars. The documents also include a list of Iranian religious scholars that traveled to Iraq.
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Ministry of Interior General Police Directorate Criminal Investigations and Residency Department Baghdad 4 Shaban 1360 27 / 8 / 1941 Number AKA / File Number 19207 To: Ministry of Interior 8 / 8 / 1360 AH 31 / 8 / 1941 AD 2556 / ⟦illegible⟧ Borders Department - Secret - General Police Directorate Subject: Entry of an Iranian scholar With reference to your letter No. AKA / 19207 dated 27 / 8 / 41. We refer to our letter No. M. KH / 1693 dated 21 / 5 / 1929 regarding granting entry visas to Iraqi Iranian scholars and we request informing us whether the aforementioned person is accustomed to traveling to Iran and whether you have any objection to allowing him to return to Iraq Minister of Interior K. As we have no objection to granting the visa for the matter, please 8 / 20 S. M. KH Investigations 8 / 21 Please present the file related to Iranian scholars 8 / 20
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Ministry of Interior General Police Directorate Criminal Investigations and Residency 4 Shaban 1360 Baghdad <del>27 / 8 / 1941</del> Number / Res / File Number 19207 To: Ministry of Interior Subject - Entry of a scholar Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Shahri, of Iranian nationality, requested permission to enter Iraq. The aforementioned is a resident of Iraq, has a wife and children there, and left it approximately one year ago to visit his relatives in Iran and oversee his properties there. Therefore, as the aforementioned is one of the Iranian scholars, we request your kindness in stating your decision regarding the request. ⟦illegible⟧ Acting General Police Director AM
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Ministry of Interior General Police Directorate Section of "Criminal Investigations and Dispatch" Baghdad 8 Rajab 1360 Number 2 / 8 / 1941 AQA / 2152 File Number 252 Secret 252 18 / 7 / 1360 AH 11 / 8 / 1941 AD M KH / 2122 Borders Section - Secret - General Police Directorate Subject: - Granting a visa to an Iranian scholar 252 With reference to your letter No. AQA / SH / 3153 dated 6 / 8 / 41. We refer to our letter No. M. KH / 1693 dated 21 / 5 / 1929 ⟦eras⟧ regarding the granting of entry visas to Iranian scholars into Iraq, and we request that you provide us with the date of travel of the Iranian scholar in question to Iran and the reasons for that, while stating whether the aforementioned person is accustomed to traveling to Iran. ⟦illegible signature⟧ On behalf of the Minister of Interior K. H ⟦illegible signature⟧ 11 / 8
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Ministry of Interior Directorate General of Police Division of "Criminal Investigations and Residency" Baghdad 8 Rajab 1360 Number 2 / 8 / 1941 Aqa / 2152 File Number 55 2 Secret To: Ministry of Interior Subject - Granting a visa to an Iranian scholar Our legation in Tehran requested us in its letter numbered 624 / 2 / 12 dated 21 / 6 / 1941, a copy of which is attached, to provide an opinion regarding granting the Iranian narrator called Mahmoud Taflisji an entry visa to Iraq to join his family. As a result of the investigation, it was confirmed to us that the aforementioned person is a resident of the city of Najaf where his family resides in their house. Considering that he is one of the Iranian scholars, we have presented his matter to your high office, requesting you to kindly decide what you deem appropriate regarding him and to inform us, noting that we have no objection preventing the approval of his request. Director General of Police ⟦signature⟧ AM
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Ministry of Interior Directorate General of Police Criminal Investigations and Residency Department Baghdad: 8 Rajab 1360 Number: 1941/8/2 File Number: 2152 / Res / 6 Ministry of Interior of Iraq Number 8792 Date 2 / 8 / 1941 Secret To: Ministry of Interior Subject - Granting a visa to an Iranian scholar Our legation in Tehran requested from us by its letter numbered 624 / 2 / 12 and dated 21 / 6 / 1941, a copy of which is attached, to provide an opinion regarding granting the Iranian narrator named Mahmoud Taflisji an entry visa to Iraq to join his family. It has been confirmed to us as a result of the investigations that the aforementioned is a resident of the city of Najaf where his family resides in their house, and given that he is one of the Iranian scholars, we have submitted his case to your position, requesting you to kindly decide what you deem appropriate regarding him and inform us, noting that we have no objection preventing the approval of his request. Director General of Police For recording in the residency schedule 8 / 10 102 For your kind review, the General Police refers to its letter above regarding the procedure to be followed concerning granting Iranian scholars entry visas, and we request comprehensive investigations regarding his previous residency in Iraq, his behavior, his relationships, and the reasons for his travel to Iran, while stating your opinions regarding his residency in Iraq from now on, please. 8 / 10 Sh. J. Inquire about what allowed his travel to Iran and the reasons for that, and was it based on the travel to Iran? 08 / 10 M. A. Please kindly provide the answer regarding the investigation about granting Iranian scholars visas to Iraq ⟦illegible⟧ 8 / 7 M. A. Please kindly provide the attachment from the General Police on 12 / 8 9 / 9 The paper is to be obtained 8 / 10
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⟦2 5 2⟧ Copy of a letter from the Chargé d'Affaires of the Royal Iraqi Legation in Tehran, number Confidential 12/2/624 dated 6/21/1941, addressed to the Directorate of General Police The Iranian individual named Al-Haj Mahmoud Al-Haj Mahdi Tabrizi applied to us requesting an entry visa to Iraq. Below are his identity details: Full Name - Mahmoud Taflisji Gross bin Mahdi Tabrizi Passport Number - 40 / 26940 Place and Date of Issue - Najaf Profession - Narrator (Muhaddith) Place and Date of Birth - Tabriz 1885 Purpose of travel to Iraq - To join his family and children in Najaf Has he traveled to Iraq before - Yes Witnesses he knows in Iraq - Al-Haj Mustafa Sarraf in Najaf Al-Haj Abdul Hamid Akhwan Behbehani in Najaf He holds residency permit No. 39 / 3780 / 41 dated 4/22/1939 issued by the Residency and Travel Passports Department for the provinces of Karbala, Hillah, and Diwaniyah. Please provide your opinion on this. Copy to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad True copy A. M.
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44/54 ROYAL LEGATION OF IRAQ TEHRAN The Royal Iraqi Legation Tehran No. 251 Number: 575 / 2 / 12 Date: Date: 5 / 6 / 1941 Secret Ministry of Interior of Iraq Special Office Number 6646 Date 14 / 6 / 1941 Directorate of General Police Baghdad The Iranian scholar Muhammad Mahdi Najafi has applied to us for an entry visa to Iraq. Below are the details of his identity and the persons he cites as references, requesting your opinion on the matter. Full Name - Muhammad Mahdi Najafi Place and Date of Birth - Isfahan 1880 Passport Number 34098/1734 Place and Date of Issue - Tehran 3 / 2 / 1940 Purpose of travel to Iraq - For visitation and to look into his properties located in Karbala Persons cited as references - Sayyid Jawad al-Sadr, a scholar in Kadhimiya, and Sayyid Abu al-Hassan al-Sadr in Kadhimiya. ⟦signature⟧ Chargé d'Affaires Copy to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Baghdad Ministry of Interior Baghdad ⟦illegible stamp with handwriting⟧ 14 / 6 M. T. Please review and we await the response of the General Police in this regard, please. ⟦signature⟧ 14 / 6 ⟦signature⟧ 6 / 14
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ROYAL LEGATION OF IRAQ TEHRAN No. Date Royal Iraqi Legation Tehran Number: 454 / 2 / 12 / 195 Date: 1941/5/12 Ministry of Interior of Iraq Special Office ⟦illegible⟧ Ministry of Interior of Iraq Special Office Number 4156 Date 11 / 5 / 41 Iraqi Government Ministry of Foreign Affairs Consular Section Q / 46 / 100 / 5609 On 11 May 1941 Secret and Urgent Subject - Entry of Iranians. Ministry of Interior With reference to your letter numbered 2582 and dated 29 / 4 / 1941. This Ministry has cabled its legation in Tehran to grant entry visas to Iraq to the two Iranians mentioned in your letter referred to above based on the order issued by His Excellency the former Foreign Minister dated 2 March 1941. ⟦signature⟧ Minister of Foreign Affairs Copy to - Directorate of General Police - for information with reference to the letter of the Ministry of Interior referred to above. M. T. Please be informed with reference to our letter on 228 and file please ⟦signature⟧ 12 / 5 ⟦signature⟧ 12 / 5 S. W. A 228 42 / 54 Explanation 511 In Iraq 49 and the two dated ⟦stamp⟧ For works Foreign
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ROYAL LEGATION OF IRAQ TEHRAN Royal Iraqi Legation Tehran Ministry of Interior of Iraq Special Office Number 4046 Date 29 / 4 / 1941 Baghdad Secret Number: 454 / 2 / 13 / 195 Date: 24 / 4 / 1941 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Baghdad Reference to your letter numbered Q / 1260 / 46 / 100 / 685 and dated 8 / 4 / 1941 Your letter referred to above concerns two persons whom you had agreed to grant entry visas to Iraq by your telegram No. 17 dated 3 / 3 / 1941, and they were granted visas No. 491 and 492 dated 12 / 3 / 1941 based on your aforementioned telegram. ⟦signature⟧ Chargé d'Affaires Copy to Ministry of Interior Directorate of General Police In reference to the letter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred to above. 229 42 / 54 23 ⟦illegible⟧ 4 / 24 ⟦illegible⟧ Please take note with reference to p. 228 and see if ⟦illegible⟧ please ⟦signature⟧ 4 / 20 ⟦signature⟧ 4 / 24
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2 / 4 / 1360 AH 29 / 4 / 1941 AD M. KH / 1 2582 432 24 / 54 Borders Division - Secret - Ministry of Foreign Affairs Subject: - Entry of Iranians With reference to the correspondence, the latest of which is the letter of the General Police Directorate Numbered AQA / S / 1277 and dated 27 / 4 / 1941 addressed to us, and a copy of it is to you. We send to you herewith a copy of each of the letter of the Basra Liwa Governorate Numbered S / 591 and dated 13 / 4 / 1941 and the letter of this Ministry numbered M. KH / 2219 and dated 16 / 4 / 1941, and please review your letter numbered Q / 1260 / 46 / 100 and dated 8 / 4 / 1941 regarding the necessity of refraining from granting entry visas to Iraq to the Iranians under discussion, and kindly confirming what was stated in the last letter of the General Police Directorate referred to above regarding granting them the visa with the approval of your Ministry according to the telegram dated 3 / 3 / 1941. 247 242 245 Important ⟦signature⟧ Minister of Interior Copy to: - General Police Directorate Archive K.
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Ministry of Interior General Police Directorate Criminal Investigation and Residency Division Baghdad: 3/25/1360 No.: 4/22/1941 Aga /: 1477 File Number: Ministry of Interior Number 2797 Date 4/27/941 Secret To: Ministry of Interior Subject - Entry of two foreigners Reference to your letter numbered M KH / 2219 dated 4/16/1941 We present to the Ministry that the Iranian scholar called Abu al-Qasim Raouf Mulla Yari bin al-Sayyid Abdullah entered Iraq on 4/12/1941 through the Shatt al-Arab station according to passport number 34746 / 296 dated 7/12/1940 issued to him by the travel officer in Tehran and endorsed with entry visa number 492 dated 3/12/1941 issued by the Iraqi Legation in Tehran (for visiting) accompanied by his brother called Sayyid Mahdi al-Sayyid Raouf Mulla Yari, whose profession is a religious narrator ⟦only⟧, and he carries passport number 27970 / 342 dated 6/15/1938 issued to him in Tehran and endorsed with entry visa number 491 dated 3/12/1941 granted to him by the aforementioned Legation. The granting of their visas was done with the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by its telegram dated 3/3/1941. Director General of Police Copy to: - Ministry of Foreign Affairs 49 Secret 4/27 T.M The special sub-file in ⟦444⟧ is concluded and we have requested the General Police to inform us of the details of the visa that was refused to be given to the mentioned Iranian scholar, searching for the scholar ⟦for the King⟧ and whether avoiding it definitively with a fingerprint from Tehran, for your information, considers that it should be justified who came to this Iraq previously as a training manufacturer of a device ⟦Al-M⟧ 4/27 SH.M.A With his letter to the Legation in 447 and in them ⟦that it⟧ for the province by studying it to which is in the sub-district, our letter in ⟦...⟧ ⟦by requesting it⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ or so ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ 4/
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Ministry of Interior General Police Directorate Criminal Investigations and Residency Division Baghdad 25 / 3 / 1360 Number 22 / 4 / 1941 1477 / Res / File No. ⟦line⟧ Secret To: Ministry of Interior Subject: Entry of two foreigners With reference to your letter numbered M. Kh. / 2219 and dated 16 / 4 / 1941 We present to the Ministry that the Iranian scholar named Abu al-Qasim Raouf Mulla Yari bin al-Sayyid Abdullah entered Iraq on 12 / 4 / 1941 via the Shatt al-Arab post under passport number 26 / 34746 dated 12 / 7 / 1940 issued by the Travel Officer in Tehran and stamped with entry visa number 492 dated 12 / 3 / 1941 issued by the Iraqi Legation in Tehran (for visit), accompanied by his brother named Sayyid Mahdi al-Sayyid Raouf Mulla Yari, whose profession is a religious narrator <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> and holder of passport number 27970 / 342 dated 15 / 6 / 1938 issued in Tehran and stamped with entry visa number 491 dated 12 / 3 / 1941 granted to him by the aforementioned legation. The granting of their visas was done with the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via its telegram dated 3 / 3 / 1941. ⟦signature⟧ Director General of Police A copy to: Ministry of Foreign Affairs M
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426 Copy of document (9) and (10) in the report on the movements of foreigners No. AQ / 1120 on 16 / 4 / 41 The two Iranians whose names are listed below arrived in Basra from Tehran on 13 / 4 / 41 on their way to Karbala for visitation: - 9 Abu al-Qasim Raouf Malayeri Sayyid Abdiyeh (specialist in the science of jurisprudence) - 10 Al-Sayyid Mahdi Raouf Malayeri Sayyid Abdiyeh (religious narrator) Copy to Correspondence 4/17 As ⟦...⟧ 4/17 ⟦...⟧ in the name of ⟦...⟧ Musa
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Special form for suggestions and observations Ministry of Interior Competent Branch: S. H. Date: 15 / 4 244 Government Press 1197 - 9 - 40 The authority to which it is submitted :: M. TH. 245 44 / 54 19 / 3 / 1360 AH 16 / 4 / 1941 AD No. 2219 Borders Branch - Secret - General Police Directorate Subject " - Granting a visa With reference to the correspondence, the last of which was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs letter No. Q / 1260 / 46 / 100 dated 8 / 4 / 1941 addressed to the Royal Iraqi Legation in Tehran, a copy of which was sent to us and to you. We send you enclosed a copy of the letter from the Basra Governorate Administration No. S / 591 dated 13 / 4 / 1941 regarding the subject, and we request you to inform us of the details of the visa with which both of the subject Iranian scholars entered Iraq. Minister of Interior 233 Number ⟦...⟧ / 4 and continued requesting the entry visa if I had ⟦...⟧ S at the hunting station ⟦...⟧ with the opinion of the General Police at the end of their residency period, reporting the fact without giving opportunity for its extension by order, please S. H. 8 / 4 Requesting the identity of Ayatollah ⟦...⟧ Regarding the visa with which each of them entered ⟦...⟧ in the event of her residence ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ 15 / 4
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Special form for suggestions and observations Ministry of the Interior Competent Division: S. Kh. Date: 15 / 4 Government Press 1197 - 9 - 40 224 Entity to which it is submitted: M. Th. Subject: Visa We attach herewith this report on the summary in 2752, and we have requested the Foreign Ministry to take the necessary measures not to grant entry visas to Iraq to the two Iranian scholars mentioned in letter 2752, and that the Foreign Ministry in turn telegraphed our legation in Tehran not to grant the aforementioned visa. However, the Governorate of Basra telegraphed the legation stating that the two mentioned scholars arrived in Basra on 12 / 4 / 941 coming to Karbala with valid passports. It appears from the above that they were granted the visa without waiting for the result of the correspondence regarding granting the visa - in the event that our legation in Tehran was the one that granted the visa - since the date of the Foreign Ministry's letter is 8 / 4 and the date of their arrival in Basra is 12 / 4. But if the visa was granted to them by one of our consulates in Iran, then it granted the visa without taking the opinion of the General Police. Perhaps you will assign the sending of a copy of this letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with reference to its letter 2484 - to take what is necessary in this regard and to the General Police to explain how the visa was granted and to deport them to Iran upon the expiration of their residency period in Iraq without giving any opportunity for extension. For your orders, please. 15 / 4 Head of S. Kh. 15 / 4 By visa, it is meant that they must have been granted the visa authorized by both of them from an Iranian authority other than the legation and ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ by our consulates there. I suggest that a letter be sent with the outgoing number and date 14 / 4 and follow up at the time in the name of the Foreign Ministry as I had recorded in the greatness of the chest ⟦illegible⟧ Mr. Shukri I hope that it is sent as a copy of the account but it ⟦illegible⟧ despite our instructions on the importance of maintaining his prevention from changing it, and it seems that the amounts were delayed in performing his duty as it should be. 15 / 4
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242 Mutasarrifate of Basra Province Correspondence Please refer to the number of this correspondence and its date exactly when replying Ministry of Interior of Iraq Special Office Number: 2255 Date: 14 / 4 / 1941 Secret Ministry of Interior The Iranian scholar Abu al-Qasim Raouf Mulla Yari bin Sayyid Abdullah arrived in Basra from Iran on the 12th of this month, accompanied by his brother named Sayyid Mahdi Raouf Mulla Yari, intending to travel to Karbala, and they were carrying valid passports. ⟦signature⟧ Acting Governor of Basra Province H. Th. Kindly ⟦illegible⟧ 4/14 They have no prior records ⟦illegible⟧ H. Th. Please review the files that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs letter ⟦instructed⟧ on p. 42 4/15 ⟦signature⟧ 4/15 ⟦illegible⟧ 4/14 Returned