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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [308r] (615/749)
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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INTERNAL SEC URITY.
Fa^^and Kuhd . ^alu.
10* Nasir Qashgal ho<5 hod ar* »ncyor».ce of ~ r T .? f . The Thab. Ho
has also seen H.M. Ambassador» He does no-u in’cend oo scay in Tehran longer
than is necessary for him to arrange for the education abroad of his son
Abdullah. A fairly reliable report states that at his audience with H.I.M.
The Shah, Nasir Khan spoke bluntly on the general insecurity and indiscipline
in the country and warned The Shah that continued lack of a firm Government
could only result in the disintegration of Persia in the very near future.
Only a Persian could fail to see anything inconsistent in Nasir*s adoption
of the role of mentor and in his conveniently forgetting his own past
share in weakening Persia be harbouring her enemies and maintaining in Pars
an armed rebellion against the central authority.
In the dispute between Muhammad Ali Liravi and Fathullah
Hiatdaudi (see para 10 of last Summary ^further intervention by the small
military force sent to Liravi lias as yet been found unnecessary.
Sou thern Kurdistan.
11. No further news has been received about the activities of
the Persian Army column which enbered RSZAB (sec pare. 11 of last IntjSumy:).
Its tasks, as enumerated by the Chief of the General Staff, seem ill-defined.
It is to show the flag in those more/remoto parts of Southern Kurdistan
which lie between the Scnnandaj- Her Ivan and Kermanchah - Maud shah roads, to
destroy any armod force of Kurds which may oppose it and to cut off those
tribes living round Merivan from support by the Avroman tribes to the South.
No arrangements for its maintaincnanco in this inaccessible area will have
been made by a non-existent supply department and after a few weeks sojourn
there, during which time it will have commandeered and exhausted the supplies
of the countryside it will return to its base at Senna: .daj»
12* The OAF., .nomads are reliably reported to nave signed an
agreement with the Iraq authorities not to cross the •.rentier into Persia
this summer. They failed to induce the Persian frontner commissioner to
modify his conditions for their entry - conditions which they regarded as
too onerous.
BRITISH INTERESTS.
13 * H,M.Government are reminded from time to time that the Persian
Government has not given up its claim to BAHREIN. The claim is rather
shadowy as it is based on a total period of severedgnty of 570 years in the
last 17 centuries of which 350 years belong to the pro -11 iharmaGan era. In
more recent times Persia cannot be said to have exercised effective rule for
more than 167 years in the aggregate, and it is now ova- 160 years since she
last held the islands. The Persian claim was restated recently in the Russian
sponsored paper "RAHBAR". Still more recently a party of Bahreini
pilgrims bound for MESHED were stooped in KHCRRAI:3HAHR on the grounds that,
being Persian subjects, their British passports were invalid. The party has
now returned to BAHREIN and their passports, which had been impounded by
the Persian authorities,have been recovered.
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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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- 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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