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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [53r] (105/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. It was written in English and French. 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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incapable of collecting the arms of the Qashgai, this promise means nothing.
VV iser counsels having prevailed, the Government has decided not to increase his
importance by sending the proposed commission to negotiate with him.
i • c ^ eanw hde, possibly due to improved measures of protection, the
hmshire-Shiraz road was relatively safe. A hold-up of four A.I.O.C. tank lorries
and a commercial lorry occurred on the 12th November, resulting in the robbing
-W?V he dr, l vers -. 1 B , ut Vllla g es > particularly those of Nasir’s enemies, have been
^Wufiermg heavily from the depredations of the Qashgai. Several unconfirmed
reports ha\e been received that the Qashgai are receiving arms from some source
m Isfahan and -303 ammunition of recent manufacture has been seen in thei^
possession.
Persian Baluchistan.
5 $^' . 14. The operations reported in Sum mary No. 36/42. paragraph 19, to be
Bashakird district have resulted in the surrender of the leader
Abdul Hussein, and the collection of some 40 rifles.
Khuzestan.
15. The British authorities in Khuzestan are anxious that the Persian
forces, whose arrival at Dizful was reported in Summary No. 45/42, paragraph 10,
should not undertake operations against the Arabs for fear that the result mioflit
be to disturb Arab labourers employed by the British forces and alter the present
situation which, while unwelcome to the villagers and landowners who are
suffering from Arab depredations, does not adversely affect British military
1 interests. His Majesty’s Consul-General at Ahwaz has been instructed to use
his good offices to bring about a settlement that will ensure a cessation of Arab
lawlessness with the minimum disturbance of the Arabs.
A zerhaijan.
16. General Ageyli, the General Officer Commanding, Gendarmerie, is now
m Azerbaijan and is said to be arranging with the Russians for the
re-establishment of gendarmerie posts along the Perso-Turkish frontier
Turkish Affairs.
17. The Turkish Government has proposed to the Soviet authorities the
formation of a joint commission to deal with matters relating to the Turco-
Persian frontier. The Russians have agreed, but have suggested that Persia
should also be represented on this commission.
Tehran, November 17, 1942.
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the 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. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 375; 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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- Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
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- 53r:53v, 340r:340v, 359v
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- Government of Iran
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