Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [‎318r] (635/749)

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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
PERSIA.
August 25, 1945.
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Section 1.
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Military Attaches Intelligence Summary No. 31, Secret, for the 'period (Sth to
12th August, l^b.-i-(Communicgied in Tehran despatch No. 286 of
IMh August; Received FovelgnWffice 25th August.)
Persian Affairs.
Political.
THE Majlis deadlock continues. The President and some of the Deputies
were invited to tea by His Imperial Majesty the Shah on the 7th August.
From press reports of the meeting the Shah does not seem to have done
more than discuss generalities, with emphasis on Persia’s great need for
increased irrigation. A public session of the Majlis was to have been
held on the 9th August, but the minority adopted their usual tactics of
preventing it by their absence. There seems to be a growing conviction
that Sadr will not get his required majority and that he will be forced
to resign. The Shah is believed to favour this and to prefer his own previous
choice of Hakimi. That the Shah should advise the minority to cease their
opposition on condition that Sadr resigned was, however, ruled out by some of
the Deputies on the grounds that this would constitute a dangerous precedent for
interference by the Sovereign and also for future obstructionist tactics by any
minority which desired the removal of a Prime Minister.
2. The Soviet Ambassador has now received his instructions (see paragraph 5
of last Intelligence Summary), and on the 9th August informed the Minister for
Foreign Affairs of the decision to evacuate Tehran forthwith.
3. The recent visit of the Soviet trade union delegation and the question of
the representation of the Tudeh at the forthcoming Paris conference has stirred
up rival unions to apply for membership. Such are the Workers’ and Peasants’
Union of Yusuf Iftekhari and the anti-Tudeh Union in Isfahan.
A ppointments — civil.
4. —(i) Asadullah Masud Ansari, Persian Consul at Suleimanieh, to be consul
at Mosul and Erbil, vice Muhammad Hajib Davallu, appointed
counsellor at Stockholm.
(ii) Mahmud Isfandiari to be 2nd secretary at the Persian Legation at
Stockholm.
(iii) Ali Reza Bahrami to be 3rd secretary at Stockholm.
(iv) Daulatshahi to be consul, with the local rank of 1st secretary, at Delhi.
(v) Abul Qasim Nawai to be Persian Vice-Consul at Karachi.
Communications.
5. According to a press report, the Ministry of Roads and Communications
has decided to complete the construction of the Mianeh-Tabriz and Shahrud-
Meshed sections of railway. The completion of these sections was part of the
original project and it is known that the Persian Government is anxious to
provide work for those thrown out of employment as the result of the cessation
of Allied war effort in Persia, but, even so, the above announcement must be
regarded as premature as the Government has not got the money to spend on rail
way construction on a scale which will complete this work in the near future.
Internal Security.
Pars.
6. (See Intelligence Summary No. 28, paragraph 10.) The latest news of
this dispute is that the Persian military authorities intend to disarm both the
Fathullah Hiat Daudi and Muhammad Ali Lirawi factions. The Chief of the
General Staff has been informed by the British military authorities that, in view
of Fathullah Khan’s long-standing friendship with the British, his success in
maintaining order in his area with the help of the 200 Persian Government rifles
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