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Ext 5001/41 'PERSIA – INTERNAL (Miscellaneous despatches).' [67v] (134/248)
The record is made up of 1 file (122 folios). It was created in 21 Jun 1942-15 Mar 1946. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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eat up Raphael Street, which was so named as a fair swap for a Firdausi Street
in Rome. The Persian Government are now saying that, if no agreement is
arrived at on this point, no individual names will he given, hut to satisfy everyone
“ Churchill Street ’’ will be called “ Tehran Conference Street.” There is also
a plan to erect a monument in the Shah Reza Avenue to the north of the Soviet
and British Missions, with a suitable inscription. M. Soheily, peeping out of
perhaps the last wisp of the cloud of glory which he trails, wants to say it witR
angels. His Majesty s Legation will do their best to see that the monument, u
built, shall be as worthy of the occasion as is possible, for if some of the Persian
suggestions are carried out, the monument will be a serious rival to a plaster
nvmph-and-champigon monstrosity near by, which serves as a landmark to the
British community under the name of the “ Slut and Mushroom.”
Visit of President Penes.
9. Dr. Benes, President of the Czechoslovak Republic, stayed in Tehran for
two days on his way back from Moscow to London. He was the guest of the Shah
and the object of a display of official regard which is attributed partly to gratitude
for the services to Persia which Dr. Benes is supposed by Persians to have
performed when appointed arbitrator by the League of Nations in the Anglo-
Persian dispute about the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and partly to a desire on
the part of the Persians to show that they know how to treat State visitors when
they are not frustrated as they think they were at the time of the recent conference.
Dr. Benes was given an honorary degree, and was feted at a dinner at the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs at which the Shah and the Queen were present. He made a
good impression, and his visit may well have served a cause which he and other
Czechs have much in mind, viz., the consolidation of the position of Skoda and
other Czech enterprises in this country against the day of material development
which is expected to set in after the war.
Internal Affairs.
10. The 13th Majlis came to an end on the 23rd November, 1943, in a
torrent of insincere oratory. The Prime Minister and others pointed out that
not only had the treaty of alliance with the Allies been signed during the
13th legislative assembly’s period, but war had also been declared on Germany.
The speakers omitted to mention the failure of the Majlis to deal with the major
administrative problems of the country, nor the fact that so many of its members
'were greedy hoarders. The aged President of the Majlis, Hassan Isfandiary,
was voted a life pension of 10,000 rials per month.
11 . Taking advantage of the fact that the 13th Majlis had come to an
end and that the 14th would not be convened for some time, the Shah forced
a reconstruction of the Cabinet upon the Prime Minister. M. Soheily and the
members of his Cabinet resigned on the 14th December and a new Cabinet, more
satisfactory to the Shah, was formed the next day. The members of the new
Government are :—
Ali Soheily : Prime Minister.
Muhammad SaTd Maragha’i : Foreign Minister.
Amanullah Ardalan : Minister of Finance.
Muhsin Sadr : Minister of Justice.
Hamid Sayyah : Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.
Dr. Isa Sadiq : Minister of Education.
Mustafa Adi: Minister of State.
Abdul Hussein Hajhir : Minister of the Interior.
Nasrullah Intizam : Minister of Communications.
Nuri Isfandiari: Minister of Agriculture.
Ibrahim Zand : Minister of War.
Brigadier Ismail Shafa’i: Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Dr. Ghani : Minister of Health.
M. Hajhir is still in London, so the Prime Minister keeps the Ministry of the
Interior in his own hands. Four of the Ministers have never held Cabinet
office before, viz., Nuri Isfandiari, a professional diplomat; Zand, military
cadet (in Russia), lawyer, banker, and more recently comptroller of the Shah’s
finances; Dr. Ghani, a savant rather than a doctor and certainly no administrator;
and General Shafa’i, manager of the madhine-gun
factory
An East India Company trading post.
that is now making
machine-pistols for the Russians. The Shah’s main object was to get rid of
Ahmedi and to replace him by one of his own men and so be able to run the
army himself. It was suspected at the time that a desire to please the Russians
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This file consists of miscellaneous dispatches relating to internal affairs in Persia [Iran] during the occupation of the country by British and Soviet troops. The file begins with references to an Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, signed in January 1942, which followed the Anglo-Soviet invasion of the country in August-September 1941.
Most of the dispatches are addressed by His Majesty's Minister (later Ambassador) at Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Anthony Eden). The dispatches discuss political, financial and economic affairs in Persia, as well as issues regarding road and rail transport (for the transportation of foodstuffs), food supplies and press censorship,
Related matters of discussion include the following:
- British concerns regarding the extent and effect of Axis propaganda in Persia and the Persian Government's response to it.
- Relations between the Shah [Muhammad Reza Khan] and successive Persian prime ministers, and the power and influence of the Majlis deputies.
- Anglo-Persian relations, and British concerns regarding Soviet policy in Persia.
- The Persian press's response to the Allied occupation.
- The Tehran conference in late November 1943, attended by Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D Roosevelt, who were also present at a dinner at the British Legation, held in celebration of Churchill's 69th birthday (also discussed is the naming of three streets in Tehran, after Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt respectively).
- The tribal situation in Persia.
- The raising of the status of the British Legation in Tehran to that of British Embassy in February 1943.
- The United States' interests in Persia.
- The status of Polish evacuees in Persia.
- The work of the British Council in Persia.
- The question of the withdrawal of Allied troops from Persia.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 file (122 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 124; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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