Ext 5000/46(1) ‘Persian Situation: Miscellaneous Reports’ [‎276r] (551/1202)

arltlah laiJaaay,
Tehran.
12th .ugost 1946
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1 hare th« honour to Infom /on that tho «»•»» Hroad^aot -
apparently first of all frora tho Bolrut b tat Ion - early In A't&oot*
that a mi. her of *nat> haikha of hozlstan had appoalod to the
\rab league for hal# against the violence of the Tudeh . arty and
the na^leot and ladlfferenae of the 1 erelan noeennent nede a
oonnlderable atlr in the Tehran press*
a* .onaent began with pained bat hopeful head linos each as
'New» that a anno t ba True * but ae repetition ooi.pelld belief*
reports of this action by the hhaslstan mbs sere net with stronger
eritlelsta.
2* The sppael eas aienlased on unnarranted end the algnatorles
atlgnatlsed as s handful of charlatans* tools of the Anglo- r rani an
Oil Company and foreign laoerlaliera. a fee daya later further
ebullltloae of teordaelous writing were , rovoked by the newn that
the Hleb-sl-Is tills! of trad hot olalamd t'at l huelntaa wn» an
Integral pert of irei ana h ; rked by that country,
enclose a cuttln free the Journal do Teiiran' of s .guet lath ehloh
contains a t rums la t Ion of an article frora the Mtile'at entitled
'Khualatsn and Iraa* ehloh Is a fair aeaple of the sort of react ion
which haw occurred to the elelta of the Hjeb~a\-Ietlelal«
4. a nu*:t»er of powterril wuggmlLone hare clao been worked up la
articles ctl paragraphs on thin topic* It hoe been Implied that
the departure ef nn uajeaty's .vabaaeeder from Regdad to londam was
coaneeted with the qucntlou of hnslatan sad British officials from
the .ngle-lranlan oil oo%/sny and agents of the ••errt serwioc are
. stated to have met i rab leaders* ehlefly contractors of the .ngl -
Iranlaa ill Company* on the banks of the thstt si crab opposite
badan* to organise future activities against the Tudeh party sad
•the Persian U'wenraeat*
&. The Prime Minister'e official reaction has been to send
Aghal >ultani* a former deputy for ! <ehbehan on s speolal ml as Ion
to the .robs of . huzlston. Ho seems to have arrived In
‘-hommshahr scout the 11th of the current month sni I hove not yst
boon informed on vltnt Ilmen he in ao^rying out the teak dlottec te
him*
I am s sndlx^ coplos of this despatch end Its snolosuro
to the ayraanment of India* to His Hajoety'n Mhesoador at anylmi on
to the British Ht vile Aast Office in Cairo.
I have the honour to bo
with the high os t respect.
lour moot obedient h aifels .iorvsat*
?iir*
(bgd) J.H. ‘U KDUOST&I.