[PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION FROM PERSIAN]
[Translator’s notes appear in square brackets]
[Personal information has been redacted.]
Book number: -----
[Emblem]
Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone
Telegram
From: Sangsar
To: T [Tehran]
Invoice number: 304
Telegram number: 2
Number of words: 54
Original date: 5 [Mordad 1316] [27 July 1937]
Notes: -----
Date of receipt: 6 Shahrivar [1316] [28 August 1937]
Name of the recipient: -----
Mr. Prime Minister,
Copy to the Ministry of the Interior
For forty days, nine innocent [members] of our guardians are imprisoned [in] Sangsar police headquarters for being Baha’i. Now it has been fourteen days [since] Major Imam-Gheysi arrived for the interrogation. We requested their release [but] were faced with severe verbal threats. We [are] helpless [and] disturbed. With utmost despondency, [we] beg for [their] judgement and release.
Desperate wives of the prisoners: Bahiyyeh Baghaei; Zahra Mazloum; Taheriyeh Taeidi; Golbanou Peymani; Omeh Salimeh Taei; Goldaneh Parvin; Shams Jahan Rahmanian; Soghra Shahriari; Rezvaniyyeh Laghaei; Zahra Hossein Zolfi; Kheyrnesa Sobhani
[Stamp: ] Received at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet] Date: 7 Shahrivar 1316 [29 August 1937]
Number: 8442
[Note on top of page] Confidentially ask the police what the story was in this regard. If they closed [their shops/businesses], contrary to the regulations, suitable punishment based on the law must be imposed, so that these individuals do not pretend to be oppressed.