Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [‎301r] (601/749)

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to open support of tbs movement# Pliatqver tha truth itey hi, tha
Kur^s balled that the movai vat haa Huil i la \ Aj. /pval, • t' -aro
la isuch clrouwitaiitlal evldauca to c or ■ f Ira ^ tlvi .iJ,. J •
reported, and appaara to b© true, tfcfct eti©»pi» ®r© no lonF.sr
botnf” Eiade to persuade tha Kurds to join the Tudeh part; - , ^bi-ch
found little fHro^jr with the**# Kurd ish Indenendenoe la a mors
effective slogan*
Xp> # 4 n entirely reliable report states on all roads
leading Southwards fr<»r> ths Caspian provinces stalwart norbero of
the Tudeh party, wearing arufcands Indies ting that they are off ic
appointed to prevent the export of rice, aro stationed within
| . protective radius of Hues lan nil it ary posts to step and seereh all
lorries leaving the area for th© bouth* knj rice carried is thrown
off# The local inhabitants when questioned said that they were
powerless to protest; Uie Tvideh said that the rioe would be exported
b-r the British and that this could not be allowed while Persians
were starving# But the fudeh did ?iot object to rice being exported
to His* la# Force was on the aide of the Pud eh# Resista ice was
followed by a beating and the destruction of property# Persian
I officials gave no protection#
14 # Further inf oration has now been received of the hostile
demonstration am Inst the E.R.R# cinema van at hahabad which was
reported In 3 nursery Ko* 25 / 45 , para 6 # It was or a ilsed by the
Kami* party (see para IS), members of which paraded nonr the van,
f heat Inf Rruias and bearing aloft a large portrait of btalin# The
electric leads of the apparatus were twice out# It is by no means
1 certain that this outburst was approved by the Rnseians# It may
ham originated In a spontaneous desire of the members of the
Komala party to demonstrate their preference tor Russia over
Groat Ih’italn# Thcr^ had been no previotjs incl lea lion of anti-
British feeling In Mahabad#
16 # The total deliveries againat the contra t BMle by the
I Soviet authorities with the Persian munition factories (see para
I o.ll of Sumr ary Ho .45 of 1942 ) up to the date when the contract
was closed waref-
' 41,990 rifles
8,$25,009 rounds of fisall arm aarnwultion
10,279 machine pistols
The figtxrea stated In the contract werei~
60 , =X )0 rifles
42,0 0,000 rounds of b.a.A.
50,0 3 isachin© pistols
Deliveries began in April 1945 and ended in January