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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [285r] (569/749)
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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EILITARY ATTACHE'S
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British Embassy,
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1 7th June, 1 . 45'
I?ITBL1,IG.:,HCB SUiiLlARY Ho, 25
for t;-l; Bh.aoj nth jui.e to 17 th junb 1945 .
PERSIAN
A..: r il.
Political.
1. The new Cabinet,
the Shah on 12th June:-
Prime Minister and
I.Iinister of the Interior
Ministers without
portfolio
Finance
Justice
Industry and Hines
Public Health
Posts and Telegraphs
Jar
Foreign .iffairs
Agriculture
Education
composed as under, was presented to
Seyyid Luhsin Sadr /
(Sadr-ul-A.shraf) ^
Mustafa Adi (Mansur-es-Sultaneh)
+ Hassan All Pamal Hidayet
(Hasr-u1-Hulk)
■ ! i ahmu d B ade r , F. 0. 4C -Li . A. 51 )
. jnanullah Ardalan (F.0.27---* 33)
Abbas Juli Gulshayan
Dr Sa’ed Malek(Lughman-ul-Mulk)
Ahmad Etebar
Ibrahim Zand
Anushirv/an Sipahbudi
Dr Nakhai
t Ghulam Hussein Rahnema
+ In previous Cabinet.
All the above have at one time or another in the past been Cabinet
Liinisters, Gulshayan not since Feroughi’s cabinet. He was Mayor of
Tehran in 1944*
2. , The Cabinet has not yet been presented to the
Majlis. i he opposition, ..hich consists of the 8 Tudeh representatives
and some 30 other deputies led by Dr Musaddig, by absenting
themselves from the Majlis have ensured that the necessary quorum
was not present, some of the deputies of the majority coalition
being absent from Tehran. The Chah also, although he authorised
Sadr to f rm a Cabinet, is known to be intriguing against him, and
it is probably due to his influence that Mtebar and Ardalan have
already reoi ned. The Shah ’s- opposition is mainly due to pi : ue and
a desire to get even wivn one majority of the deputies for having
rejected hakimi ’ s Cabinet which included some I.Iinisters of his own
choice. x he deputies of the opposition, but not including the
Tudeh representatives, have issued a manifesto ^nnoucing their
* /intention
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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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- Title
- 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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