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Kurdistan.
10. On the 15th February a crowd of Kurds attacked the police station at
Mahabad (Saujbulagh) and attempted to loot the Finance Department’s offices.
Five policemen and a Kurd were killed. The ringleader of the Kurds, Aziz of
the Faizullahbegi tribe, in an inflammatory speech, urged the expulsion of all
Persian officials and claimed to speak as a pro-Russian, pro-Communist
Nationalist. According to a Russian source the Kurds were enraged at the
unfair distribution of monopoly goods. On the 14th February, at a village a
few miles north of Rezaieh a small detachment of Persian infantry on tactical
training encountered a party of Herki Kurds. The latter opened fire and the
commander of the Persian detachment, a Major Mafi, rashly charged them and
was killed. According to a Persian General Staff report, as yet unconfirmed
from consular sources, the Persian detachment a day or two later located these
same Kurds in position on a hill north-west of Rezaieh on the Rezaieh-Shahpur
road and attacked them inflicting casualties of fifty killed and wounded with
no loss to themselves. The Persian Government feel particularly sore with the
I Russians over the first incident because the Russians, though they withdrew their
garrison from Mahabad some time ago, refused to' allow the Persian army to
install their own. A battalion of Persian infantry has been moved from Saqqiz
to Bukan about 35 miles south of Mahabad and, if Russian permission is obtained,
this battalion will subsequently move on and garrison Mahabad.
Khuzistan.
11. A fairly reliable estimate of the arms recovered in phases 3, 4 and 5
of General Humayuni’s operations against the Arabs of Khorramshahr and
Abadan, Shedgan and Khalafabad is 1,300, 750 and 400 respectively.
French Interests.
12. General Catroux, French Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., passed through
Tehran on his way to Moscow. He was received in audience by His Imperial
Majesty the Shah.
13. The Persian Military Mission referred to in paragraph 18 of
Intelligence Summary No. 49 of 1944 is scheduled to leave Tehran on the
1st March, 1945.
Tehran, 2dth February, 1945.