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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [226r] (451/749)
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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A 'ppointments — Military.
H.—(i) SarLashkar Hassan Arfa (E.O. 30; M.A. 37) to be a Military
G-oyernor for the purpose of applying military law to offences committed on the
railway and on certain roads not yet specified (see Summary No 40/44
paragraph 8).
^ (jj-) ^ ar ^P Assadullah Gulshayan to be acting commander of the
2nd (Tehran) Division.
(m) Sarlashkar Amanullah Jahanbam (F.O. 103; M.A. 132i to command
the officers’ cadet school.
12. Sarlashkar Ahmad Nakchevan (F.O. 159; M.A. 193), commanding the
Persian Air Force, has left Tehran to visit England at the invitation of the Air
Ministry. He is accompanied by Colonel Bayendor, Persian Air Attache in
London, who has been in Tehran on a short visit.
Internal Security.
Fars.
13. The Governor-General of Fars, appreciating that the forces at his
disposal are not yet capable of controlling the increasing disorder among the
Qashgai, has recommended to the Government that Nasir Qashgai should be
officially recognised as responsible for the maintenance of order in the tribe, and
that for this purpose he should be allowed to draw p&y from the Government for
about 100 riflemen. The Governor-General argues that Nasir, as a Government
official appointed to keep order in the tribe, is not likely to make himself so
popular that there would be any difficulty in evicting him when the time came.
To judge by the parallel case of Morteza Quli Bakhtiari, this seems at least a
possibility.
Kurdistan.
14. No further reports of encounters between Persian troops and Hama
Rashid’s followers have reached Tehran. A British officer is visiting Baneh to
see conditions for himself at the invitation of the Persian General Staff.
Conversations are taking place between local Persian military officers and Iraqi
officials with a view to inducing the Iraqi authorities to take action, if not against
Hama Rashid himself, against his family and property now in Iraq territory.
According to Persian reports the Iraqi authorities show no disposition to
co-operate.
Baluchistan.
15. Some time ago a certain Baluch, Madad Ali, a mullah living in the
neighbourhood of Bazman, 70 miles north-west of Iranshahr, set himself up as
a prophet, collected a number of followers, and started a reign of terror,
murdering several persons who ventured to oppose him. After some ineffective
operations by the gendarmerie, a military column was sent against him, which
killed the prophet and dispersed his followers.
Russian Affairs.
16. A modification is required in paragraph 14 of Summary No. 39/44.
Iransovtrans are continuing their commercial operations in the so-called Russian
zone.
Tehran, 29£A October, 1944.
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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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- 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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