Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [‎270v] (540/749)

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Internal Security.
Kurdistan.
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7. In spite of the assurance of the Soviet Embassy that a reduced Persian
column from the garrison at Saqqiz, reinforced by a battalion from Tabriz which
might be relieved at Tabriz by a battalion from Tehran, would be allowed to move
to Mahabad, the local Russian military authorities still refuse to permit the
column to advance. See Summary No. 12/45, paragraph 11.
Kuhigalu.
8. Abdullah Zarghampur has made his submission to the Government and
it has been accepted. He has been given some assurance that his sins of the
past would be overlooked if he behaved well in future, but not a formal pardon.
He has undertaken not to interfere in the affairs of the other chiefs of Kuhigalu
or of other tribes. The chiefs previously in opposition to him are to be assured
that they are not being abandoned by Government and that they can count
on the support of Government against any attempt by Abdullah Khan to
interfere with their rights or to impose himself as overlord of Kuhigalu. The
question is whether the Boir Ahmadi, having agreed now not to loot each other,
will be able to refrain from looting their neighbours.
Russian Affairs.
9. It is reported that the Soviet military authorities are taking up land
near Rezaieh, l abriz and Mianeh, ostensibly for the purpose of growing their
own vegetables, and that villages are being rented in the vicinity of Tehran
apparently by members of the Tudeh party but really by the Russians. To the
Persians this can mean only an attempt to get hold of the peasants who in these
villages will be given cause to appreciate Soviet methods. Both reports require
confirmation.
10. On the 23rd March Soviet troops in Meshed turned out in considerable
numbers to prevent interference by the Persian police with crowds which were
being harangued by Tudeh orators.
H It reported, but requires confirmation, that the Russians are making
a new airfield at Khoi in north-west Azerbaijan.
12. The new Archimandrite of the Armenian Church in Julfa (Isfahan)
is reported to be telling Armenians that the time has come for them to return
to their native land and that arrangements for this are being made by the Soviet
Government.
13. A Society of Armenian-Soviet Cultural Relations has been formed in
Isfahan.
A merican A ffairs.
^ me G can military survey party is now making preliminary arrange
ments lor the making of an aeronautical chart which is to cover Persia south
of a line somewhere between the 28th and 29th parallels of latitude and west of
the Shiraz-Isfahan-Tehran road. It seems that the country affected is to be
covered fairly thoroughly by survey parties, since points are to be fixed by ground
survey every 50 miles. ' &
Czechoslovak Affairs.
15. M. Masaryk, Foreign Minister in the Czechoslovak Government has
arrived m Tehran on his way to London and San Francisco.
Tehran, ls£ April. 1945.