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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOYERNMENT
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December 3, 1943.
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Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Recei ved 3rd December.)
(No. 465.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his complifnCS^^to Hii Majesty »
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs aneFhao feWhottour^to transmit
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 47 for the period of the 16th to
22nd November, 1943, compiled by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, ‘ISrd November, 1943.
(Secret.)
Enclosure.
Military Attache's Intelligence Summary No. 47 for the Period \fSth to
22nd November, 1943.
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Persian Affairs.
Political.
1 . The life of the present Majlis ends on the 23rd November. The presence
of sixty-nine members is necessary before the new Majlis can open. About sixty
have already been elected, but it is not unlikely that the opening will be postponed
for some weeks on one pretext or another. It is understood that the Shah wishes
in the interim to dismiss the present Prime Minister and to put in a Cabinet of
his own choosing. As far as is known, he has not yet selected the new Prime
Minister.
2. Relations are still strained between the Shah and the Minister for War
and the latter suspects that the Shah is endeavouring to force him to resign or to
find excuses for omitting him from the next Cabinet.
3. During the last fortnight of its life the Majlis passed the following
Bills :—■
The Budget Bill.
The Income Tax Bill—see Summary No. 23/43, paragraph 10.
The Bill for the engagement of sixty American advisers for the
Millspaugh Mission.
The Bill authorising the Government to borrow 400 million rials for the
purchase of drugs.
The Bill granting a credit of 20 million rials for the purchase of drugs.
The Workers’ Insurance Bill—see Summary No. 1/43, paragraph 3.
The Bill making military personnel liable to the jurisdiction of civil
courts for all except purely military offences.
4 . Voting for the election of new Deputies for Tehran is about to begin.
It is expected that the elections will not be completed for two or three weeks.
5 . A letter from the President of the Iraqi Parliament addressed to the
Persian Parliament protesting against the action of the French authorities in
the Lebanon was read out in open session.
6 . The Shah has given £500 to Earl Haig’s Fund.
Economic.
7. The 1943-44 Budget Law was passed by the Majlis on the 16th November.
As presented, the budget was divided into two parts : “ (a) the ordinary budget,
showing revenue at approximately 1,891 million rials, and expenditure at
3,298 million rials, or a deficit of about 1,400 million rials, and (b) the “ Extra
ordinary ” budget (dealing with the trading and industrial enterprises of the
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