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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [102v] (204/749)
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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Persian Forces.
6 The Ministry for War has asked for a credit of 250 million rials to meet
current expenses pending the presentation and sanction of this year’s budget. In
ie preamble to the Bill the following figures are given to illustrate the effect on
the budget of the rise in prices
Rations
Fodder
Clothing
Provision in Last
Year's Budget.
Rials.
151,180,080
77.044,143
45,000,000
A mount Required this
Year at Prevailing
Prices.
Rials.
465,848,478
131.000,000
112,602,060
273,224.223
709.450.538
Hussein Amidi (M.A. 16A). to be Military
in
A ppo intmen ts—Mi lit ary.
7.—(i) Sartip Muhammad
Governor of Tehran.
(ii) ^ ai ‘ t] P Razmara (M.A. 243), from command of the 1 st Division to be
Commander of the Central Recruit Training and Administrative Depot
1 ehran. 1
(iii) 8 >artip Rohullah Keikavousi, from command of the 7 th
Division to be Commander of the 1 st Division.
(iv) Sarhang Mansur Muzayani, to command the 2 nd Division.
(y) Sartip Sztvati, to be an Inspector in the Ministry for War
(vi) Sarhang Sayyar, to be Military Governor of Faraidun.
(Kerman)
' Internal Security.
Pars. *
3. General Shahbakhti has commenced operations for the re-establishment
Ka^rTf,T^. i a CT r ' t v y 111 b y mov ’ n g columns towards Firuzabad from
Avar, Kazarun and Jahrum. The advance of the Kavar column was opposed by
dirtr-H 8 "f ,, , eta A S Fave not L y et been received. These operations do not
directs involve all the Qashgai tribes. The Darashuri and Qashquli who are
not in this area, are reported to be negotiating with the Boir Ahmad i for passage
through their country to their summer quarters. Proclamations have been
dropped on the tribes ordering them to report to military posts on their mioration
and warning them that looting will be punished and compensated from" triba”
property. Military go\ernment has been proclaimed in the town of Shiraz.
Bakhtiari.
Morteza Quli Khan has agreed to go to Bakhtiari as Governor He is
confident of being able to control the tribe and to get rid of Abul Qasim H s
appointment should give the Bakhtiari tribe more confidence in the Government
am, counteract the ettect ot those agitators who have been telling the tribes that
their only hope of survival lies in resistance. It may also have a calmin' effect
on southern Bakhtiari in the area adjacent to the oil-fields, where there has
recently been disturbance. dS
Khuzestan.
10 . Jhe Boir Ahmadi have been creating trouble in the Agha Jari-Pazannn
aiea Oj the oil-fields, an area undisturbed for some time. On the 12 th May thev
held up a party of cars containing European staff of the oil comnanv l-illW
an Iranian driver and robbing the Europeans of their possessions. P ' ' ' °
11 . It is iepoi ted tbat because the followers of on-ir. 'k /
Summarv No._20/43 paragraph 10) did not dTsplrse qumki? enou'S ’from
Qajiriyeh, they were bombed by Persian aircraft. ' 1
^ ntere ® t . t ^ iat t J ie ® ei1 ^ ^ uru t in spite of the fact that the Persian
army had begun to disarm them, showed no inclination to support Sheikh Chassfb
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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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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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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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