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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [138v] (276/749)
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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5. The sale of gold to the public on Persian Government and His Majesty s
Government account, besides producing rials for British military expenditure
without increasing the note issue or involving the sale of sterling, has had the
following effects :—
(a) Rials have been obtained more cheaply than by the sale of sterling.
(b) Rials have been withdrawn from circulation, so contributing to chec-k
finflation. u- n
(c) There has been a considerable decrease in the value of real estate, which
may later result in a reduction of rents.
The sales of gold on His Majesty’s Government account have realised
77,028,371 rials, and on Persian Government account 22,216,092 rials. The
average price was £19 85 . 3d. per fine ounce.
Gendarmerie.
6 .
to be as
Central Headquarters
1st District (Tehran)
2nd District (Azerbaijan)
3rd District (Khorassan)
4th District (Kerman) ...
5th District (Ears)
6 th District (Khuzestan)
7th District (Western) ....
8 th District (Isfahan)
Ind. Regiment of Birjand
. Traffic (Motor) Regiment...
Railway Regiment
Totals
on the 1 st October was officially reported
Officers. Men.
168 405
149 3,812
112 3,076
67 1,732
59 2,392
93 3,046
69 1,805
88 2,962
52 825
32 1,537
31 426
17 285
937 22,303
Persian Forces.
The strength of the gendarmerie
follows :—
Appointments — Military.
7 . (i) Sarhang Gulshayan, to command the 4th (Kurdistan) Division.
(ii) Sarhang Jawadi, to command the 3rd (Azerbaijan) Division.
Internal Security.
Fars.
8 Except for the shoot-up of an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s tanker on the
outskirts of Shiraz, in which the driver and a passenger were killed, no incidents
have been reported on the roads in Fars. Most of the, tribes are now well on their
way to their winter quarters, and they appear to be Teavmg with moderation.
Nasir Qashgai has agreed to co-operate with the Government forces m suppressing
banditry. "He shows no intention of leaving Fars nor of handing over the
Germans, who, although they may not actually be m Qashgai territory, are still
under Qashgai protection. Khosrow has not yet taken up his appointment as
Farmandar of Firuzabad. The Governor-General, Qawam-ul-Mulk. is still m
Tehran and it now seems unlikely that he will return to Fars. 1 he policy o
conciliation of Nasir and Khosrow Qashgai and of Abdullah Zarghampur,
initiated bv General Jahanbani and approved by the Minister for War, who was
imnressed by the unfitness for operations of the troops m h ars, has now 80
far that to revert to the policy of disruption which the Qawam was intended to
follow would probably precipitate a crisis with which the Qawam could not dea ,
especially as relations between him and the army have been severely strained by
his openly-expressed lack of confidence in its officers. General Jahanbani can
point to the establishment of some peace in Fars and may claim with justification
that there is hope that it will last for some months, but it is a peace entirely at
the mercy of Nasir. He has been summoned to Tehran and told to bring Khosrow
with him.
Kuh-i-Galu.
9 . General Jahanbani has written
with responsibility for keeping order
assisting officials in the establishment
to Abdullah Zarghampur investing him
in the Boir Ahmadi country and for
of Government administration. Only
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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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