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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [143r] (285/749)
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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Gendarmerie.
12 . I he Bill for the engagement of up to eight American officers as
advisers to the gendarmerie has passed the first reading in the Majlis. The Bill
states that the senior of these officers shall be adviser to the Ministry of the
nterior m gendarmerie matters, that the period of engagement shall be for two
|ears and that the Government is authorised to define the powers of the advisers
Agreement with the Government of the United States of America.
A 'p'pointments—Military.
13 —(i) Sipahbod Yazdan Panah (F.O. 216 ; M.A. 301) to be Aide-de-Camp
General to the Shah. 1
(jj) Sartip Razmara to be Chief of the Shah s Military Secretariat.
(in) Sartip Hassan Arfa (F.O. 30; M.A. 37) to command the 1 st (Tehran)
Division. v ’
(iv) Colonel Ahmad Vossuq to command the Recruit Training Depot, Tehran.
(v) Colonel Muqaddam Alavi to command to Central Administrative Depot
Tehran.
[\i) Saitip harajullah Keikavusi from command of the 1 st Division to the
unemployed list.
1 he following officers have been retired :—
f Sipahbod Sharbakti (F.O. 191; M.A. 262).
Sarhangs Seyyid Ahmad Janpulad (Infantry), Ali Quli Abbasi
(Cavalry), Hassan Nikman (Infantry), Mahmud Malik Khosrovi
(Finance Department).
Internal Security.
Fars.
14. As a result of the visit to Tehran of General Jahanbani and Khosrow
Qashgai the Government has decided to continue for the present the policy of
appeasement which has for the time being produced a measure of peace. They
hope that gestures of friendliness on the part of the Government will be more
effective in producing dissension among the tribes than the threat of force, which
gives the tribes an incentive to combine, and that by the spring the tribes will be
sufficiently disunited to justify the Persian Army in undertaking piecemeal dis
armament. That is an optimistic view.
15. Khosrow Qashgai has again given solemn assurances to His Majesty’s
Legation that he will immediately on his return to Fars take measures for the
arrest and surrender to the British authorities of the Germans still in Fars. Much
reliance cannot be put on these assurances.
16. The migration of the Khamseh and Qashgai tribes is now well on its
way and some have already reached their winter quarters.
Western Azerbaijan.
17. It was reported in Summary No. 40/43. paragraph 8 , that the Soviet
authorities were pressing for the re-establishment of gendarmerie posts all along
the Turco-Persian frontier for the prevention of smuggling. The reply of the
Persian Government was that since all the Kurds along this frontier were well
armed, it would be impossible to establish gendarmerie posts in Kurdish territory
unless the Persian Government were allowed to maintain in the area military
forces sufficiently strong to disarm or overawe the Kurds. It has so far been
Russian policy to limit to a small and ineffective number the Persian garrisons in
Western Azerbaijan and to discourage action by Persian forces against the Kurds.
A conference is to be held in Tehran between a Russian general, wdio has come
from Azerbaijan, and the Ministers of War and Interior to discuss the matter.
In fact, the Persian budget does not allow the increase of gendarmerie or troops
that appears necessary.
Tehran, 25th October, 1943.
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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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- 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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