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Military Attache's Intelligence Summary No. 11, Secret, for the period
\2th March to l%th March, 1945. Communicated in Tehran Despatch
No. 85 of 19th March, 1945 .—(Received in Foreign Office, ‘Xlth March, 1945.)
Copy No.
126
Persian Affairs.
Political. *
THE situation in the Majlis is obscure. Bayat has not yet resigned and
refuses to do so. According to one report he has threatened, if further pressure
is put on him, to announce in the Majlis the names of all those Deputies who have
asked him for Government posts. He also stated that the fall of the Govern
ment and the long period which, in view of the approaching Nau Ruz holidays,
would elapse before a new Government could be formed, would delay to Persia’s
disadvantage the selection of representatives for the forthcoming San Francisco
Conference. The wildest rumours are abroad Some say that the Tudeh party
are keeping him in office, others that the British alone are preventing the fall of
his Cabinet. Some sixty Deputies are opposed to him, but their number may
increase if the various political factions can coalesce and agree on a successor.
2. Dr. Musaddiq has apologised for his angry outburst reported in para
graph 2 of Intelligence Summary No. 10. He is variously reported as having
explained that he did not refer specifically to the Majlis or that he did not mean
to infer that all the Deputies were thieves. This apology, though hardly hand
some, induced the Deputy Jemal Imami (son of the Imam Jumah of Khoi) to
make his apology for slapping the face of General Gulshayan, the Military
Governor at the time of the fracas at the Majlis
3. The Majlis has passed a single article bill empowering the Government
to borrow 200 million rials from the National Bank to meet current
expenditure. This loan is to be repaid from sums set apart for this purpose in
the budget for 1324 (21st March, 1945-20th March, 1946).
4. The office of the control of foreign trade has been removed from the
control of the Economic Section of the Ministry of Finance and placed under the
Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Mines.
5. Hussein Pirnia (Mutamin-ul-Mulk) (F.O. 171; M.A. 212) has refused
to accept the Persian Prime Minister’s invitation to lead the Persian delegation
at the forthcoming San Francisco Conference. The following names have since
been put forward by the Council of Ministers as representatives :—
Nasrullah Intezam : Minister of Foreign Affairs (F.O. 92; M.A. 121).
Mustafa x\dl (Mansur-us-Saltaneh) : Minister of Justice (F.O. 1; M.A. 1).
Hassan Taqizadeh : Persian Ambassador in London (F.O. 226; M.A. 294).
Majid Ahi : Persian Ambassador in Moscow (F.O. 4; M.A. 7).
6. The Tehran Daily News of the 16th March published an account of
German Fifth Column activities in Persia in the form of a press article and not a
communique. The Kurds and Qashgai are specifically mentioned as implicated
and Seyyid Abul Qasim Kashani and the Deputy Naubakht are mentioned by
I name. It is to be hoped that this article will persuade some Persians that the
i internees are not, as usually described in the Persian press, honest and patriotic
: individuals wrongfully detained on grounds of ill-founded suspicion and hearsay.
7. The Minister of Finance has tabled a bill for the increase in stamp dues
on bonds, cheques and other documents.
Economic.
8. Musharraf Nafisi (F.O.
Government Economic Council.
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154; M.A. 190) has also resigned from the
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