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April 7
Bulgaria's representative in the League of Nations excoriates the Persian Nationalists' new policy of targeting of civilian merchant ships and asks the League of Nations to take the following actions:
- Vice Admiral Pourshash and all Nationalist naval commanders will be condemned as pirates.
- The Persian Nationalists will be classified by the League as a rogue and criminal organization operating in defiance of the legitimate Persian government.
- All aid, military or civilian, to the criminal "Nationalist" forces shall be terminated immediately. Any country providing ANY aid to nationalist Persian forces shall receive full trade sanctions effective immediately. This will exclude only the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
- All overseas financial organs of the Persian nationalist forces shall be seized and frozen, pending their turnover to the legitimate Persian government (aka "Loyalists").

The Republic of Ireland concurs.

The Republic of Chile concurs.

The Republic of Azerbaijan concurs.

The Republic of Armenia concurs.

Bulgarian warships deployed in the Gulf are authorized to destroy Nationalist warships on sight, as befitting their status as criminals and pirates. (Despite this, it is unlikely Bulgarian ships will be leaving Saudi territorial waters anytime soon).

Canada;

April 2nd 1938

The British, the Chinese and Bharati representatives stood and moved to the podium. Then the British representative moved forward and read a short prepared statement:

"The Governments of the United Kingdom, the Empire of Bharat and the Chinese Empire agreed that the danger to civilian shipping in the Persian Gulf needs to be resolved. As such, our governments will utilize our naval resources already in theater to try to bring a resolution to this inconvenience. Our governments also ask for the other members nations of the League to please restrain from sending any naval presence to the region; a large number of ships possibly being more an hindrance than help. Thank you."

...and Canada is at a loss as to why the Chinese are involved in issues regarding freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, so very, very far from home.

The Irish representative stands and states: "The Republic of Ireland questions the inclusion of China when other powers with more legitimate presence and naval units already in the theater have been excluded from this alleged agreement. We request a complete explanation."

The Bharati representative spoke: "The Chinese Empire currently have an squadron assigned to the Ocean of Bharat and readily available to help. That is why China was invited by both the British and our Government to help. We could accept the help of the Bulgarian detachment currently in Saudi waters but any help from the other nation's ships currently in Saudi waters have to be rejected due to political considerations." At this the Bharati representative looked in the direction of the Persian representative, who nodded in agreement.

The chinese spokesman said:

"It was obvious for us, almost a duty, that we make with our ships in the Persian Gulf a contribution, so it comes back to the necessary stability.
We have not forced upon us, we were asked by our British, Bharati and Persian friends about it. We ALL want, that the situation doesn't continue to
escalate. Therefore, we think that the deployment of additional ships of other nations is not conducive but counterproductive."

Bulgarian representative: "We will consider the offer. As previously mentioned, our deployment to those waters was solely to provide a bulwark against invasion for our Saudi friends, not to interject ourselves into an internal Persian dispute. Nevertheless we express deep concern about the actions of the rebel Persian naval forces in their policy of attacking neutral merchants. We still await the League's response to our original proposals to choke these Persian pirates and warlords of funding, legitimacy, and aid, and we repeat our call for official economic sanctions to be leveled against any power which supplies the Persian rebels." [Note 1]

The Irish representative: "We remind our Bharati friends that there is a very conspicuous neutral with strong military units in the region, and far more compelling reasons to escort their merchant vessels, which has been excluded from all mention so far..." [Note 2]

[Note 1] Bulgaria mutters "Don't change the subject."
[Note 2] I'm not talking about the TBA.

Russian Federation government will undertake enforcement of these provisions on Caspian Sea and bordering land areas cooperatively with Republic of Azerbaijan and Republic of Armenia.

As a point of order to the Bulgarian delegation's comments, a proposal has been made to this assembly, and has been seconded (and third'd, fourth'd, fifth'd, and sixth'd).

The Chinese, Indian, and British offer of support in the region is commendable, but there is a vote before this assembly that must be settled before considering further business.

(If there's any Nay votes, now's the time)

The government of Atlantis concurs.

The government of Colombia concurs.

The Turkish Republic strongly concurs. (Thanks to India once again trying to marginalize Turkish involvement.)

The Kingdom of Poland concurs

The Kingdom of Romania concurs

The Empire of Brazil concurs

The Romanian representative wonders whether or not the various naval forces belonging to League members in the Gulf should be united together in a show of unity under a League appointed admiral to protect international shipping in these important waters from piracy. The Romanian representative ended his remarks by saying "gentlemen, I think we can all agree that the protection of international trade in these waters in vital to ensure the safe delivery of oil and other important goods from the Gulf region. Rather than different nations going at it alone, perhaps a show of international unity may be better, as well as convincing our citizens at home of the seriousness of this matter."

The Bharati representative stood. "We already presented our position with the British and Chinese representative. We thank the Romanian idea but it will not be feasible. The logistical part of that enterprise will be a nightmare and we will not take the tab for this fiasco. That why we repeat our request for that measure not being taken. The fleets of Bharat, the British Empire and the Chinese Squadron assigned to the Ocean of Bharat are more than enough to take care of the situation."

OOC: We don't want anyone else in the Gulf for this scenario. Thanks but no thanks.

I can't seem to find any posts stating that the Chinese have any forces in the Persian Gulf. Can you please point me in that direction?

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Originally posted by Brockpaine
I can't seem to find any posts stating that the Chinese have any forces in the Persian Gulf. Can you please point me in that direction?

The Chinese offered their Indian Ocean Squadron for operations. They have trained before with BNS so they will complement them ok.

Mexico says nay... (gotta keep oil prices high) let those already in the gulf deal with it.

OOC: there likely wouldn't be the desire by others to enter the gulf if there wasn't a chance that their "neutral" shipping could be sunk.

During the recess a British trade representive made it clear that overland supply of oil from Iraq is unhindered and will be increased where possible for nations who wish to fill their tankers at Palestine rather than Kuwait.

Also the British representive is worried about friendly fire incidents if too many warships are in a confined space. He also made statements promising that no naval threats would pass the batteries at Hormuz and that 24 hour patrols of aircraft and ships were now in place in that area and along the southern coast of the Gulf.

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OOC: We don't want anyone else in the Gulf for this scenario. Thanks but no thanks.

Maybe its just me but if I wanted to limit further escalating a war I might want to make sure neutral vessels were not harmed and would go out of my way NOT to sink them. Anyone supporting the Nationalists would be wise to talk them out of this strategy. MAJOR blunder mefinks...

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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin

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OOC: We don't want anyone else in the Gulf for this scenario. Thanks but no thanks.

Maybe its just me but if I wanted to limit further escalating a war I might want to make sure neutral vessels were not harmed and would go out of my way NOT to sink them. Anyone supporting the Nationalists would be wise to talk them out of this strategy. MAJOR blunder mefinks...

actually no. I was expecting events to move at the speed of real events, not at the speed of the 21st century. I can't believe that something that happened in the 31st of March is already being discussed on the 1st of April and resolved the same day. Not even today we find that kind of speed and commitment. So is not a blunder, the blunder is of the people that is playing the 1930's like is the year 2010.

I was expecting to end the naval threat way before everyone get a chance of sending half their fleets there. But here the reaction is immediate. real realistic.

Average reaction time to any event is around two to three months during the 1930's if we go by the reaction to the Mukden Incident and the Spanish Civil War. If we were realistic if would take a whole month of in SIM talks before anything gets done.