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Military Attache s Intelligence Summary No. 17, Secret, for the Period ‘IMd to
*2§th April, 1945.— {Communicated in Tehran Despatch No. 138 of
30£A April; Received in Foreign Office, 25th May)
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Persian A ffairs.
Political.
No successor to Bayat has been found and Persia still lacks a Government. ^
H.I.M. the Shah has sent a further message urging the Deputies to come to a
decision and deploring the lack of a Government at this critical period, when
the war in Europe might end at any moment and Persia would be faced with the
readjustment of her internal life.
2 . A further batch of seven Persian internees has been liberated. Two
military officers are included.
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Economic.
3. The various sub-committees of the Supreme Economic Council (see
paragraph 3 of last Intelligence Summary) have been selected. They are as
follows x—
1 inance : Bader, Muqbil. Sadiqi, Ardelan and Dr. Zanganeh.
Commerce: Wakili, Khpsroshahi, Imami, Kooros and Namazi.
Industry : Amin, Farivar, Pannahi, Dr. Ittebar and Buzurgniva.
Agriculture : Adi, Dr. Shafaq, Mustaufi, Bayat and Bushehri.
Works: Dr. Moazzemi, Dr.. Aghayan, Dr. Bahrami, Fateh and
Dr. Namdar.
A ppointments — Civil.
4. Muhammad Hajib Davallu, Persian Consul at Mosul, to be counsellor
at the Persian Legation at Stockholm. He is a pleasant-mannered and honest
man of about 45 years of age. He married, and was recently divorced from, the
younger daughter of the late Baqir Azimi, under whom he served when the former
was Persian Consul-General in Delhi. Devallu has since held posts in Rome and
Istanbul.
Internal Security.
Pars.
5. A consular report states that Nasir Khan Qashgai will probably stay in
Shiraz for the summer on account of ill-health and that his brothers Malik
Mansur and Khosro will accompany the tribe to its summer grazing-grounds.
Khorassan.
6 . Further acts of highway robbery are reported on the roads between
Meshed and Fariman and near Tabas.
Mekran.
7. Six out of the seven brigands who were guilty of a highway robbery in
November last and who were subsequently captured have been convicted by a
military court and shot in Zahidan.
Isfahan.
8 . No further demonstrations have been held. A Mill Council has been
formed, consisting of owners, managers and foremen. If this body takes its
duties seriously and looks after the welfare of the workers it should make for
tranquillity in the labour situation and also undermine the influence of the Tudeh.
which hitheito has tieated labour disputes as a field for political manoeuvre more
than a field in which thev should work for reforms.
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