Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [‎290r] (579/749)

In orfa llunfarld to be First Secretary at the Persian
Consulate CJeneral/Herat*
Abdul Hussain ;>arG&ri to be First J-eerctary at the Arslan
Legation in Berne.
Si®IM AKIX.
A list of the officers of the ,'jaerican Advisoiy Mission with
the crsian /nay is attadv^d as Ap-endix 1 to this Curamry.
Irrf^lCSTG.
The CorrKiander-dn-Chiof in tiie Middle ast and the Ge neral
Officer Cor, j &s ^ing-in»*CIhief in Persia and Iraq visited Tehran during the week
and held conferences with H.F..Ambassador*
British troops will cease to be responsible fear the security
of the railway from Anditieahk to Tehran on July 1st*
* 1 ® BEte/IAH BgTO&TS.
15* It wsa recently stated in certain Persian papers that the
Russian Ambassador had expressed tine opinion that the persons interned by the
Hies were innocent of the charges m&s against them* The ! oviat ^baa^y has
now published a statemont to the effect tiiat nebpinion as to the ,/uilt or
iraiooerioe of the internees ;iad been expressed by any me<iber of the ovxet
j embassy staff, but that tlje Persian Govemaent had been informed that tlxs ooviet
authorltiee had no objection to the release of the remaining internees*
^4* It seems that Russian offic;rs may xmve been engaging in
coiaaeroial transactiona on tlinir own account for the Soviet mb a say has publisiod
■ - an v re ■ i ‘ . i. • c ... . adal In iiSflaii
with ary Russian officer unlass he is in possesaicn of a certificate of authority
signed by the Coriaander of Soviet forces in Persia*
15* The nev/spaper hTTAJl, the official organ of the Tudah Labour
organization announces that tlx? Persian "’Yorkers* Union" has issued invitations
to the ’Tvarkera f Unions” of Hmsia, CX'eat Britain, Anorloa and I rance to sand
missions to Persia to study the conditions of the working classes* Russia had
accepted this invitation and was sending a mission under Borisov, a member of
the executive cor-mittee of Hie soviet Workers* union*
1^* An exnjs^ple of the type of propaganda that is being addressed
to the Persian employees of the A* 1.0.0* by thr Russian inspired Persian iiress
Is attached to this Bumaaxy as Appendix 2*
17« In Asarbaijan t}>a Tudsh party appears to have moderated for
the tium being its attacks on Persian landlords, tribal chiefs and the partiSrUis
of eyyid 2ia and to be devoting more of its energy to oliampioning the oaivie of
tlie urk^mplcyed* In response to notices josted u< by the Tudeh Workers* Union
acw 6,000 uncaiiloy&d, it is olain^ed, have now regtstared at tbs office of the
Union* After a meeting of the unemployed a telegram, said to reperssent the
views of five tiiousand people, was sent to the Gcvfarni »»nt urging a pfogranirm e#
of public ivcrks to provide emplq^tasnt* It mentioned in particular the
completing of the railway from TSLamh to Tabriz, the exploiting of oil and
other minerals in Azerbaijan and the building of hospitals and otlier
institutions* A tendency has been noticed in the TuYch party in Tabriz to
j widen its appeal to include b<«urgoois elements, even n^rchants and 1 ndloras*