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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNM ENT (t}} )
PERSIA.
September 14, 1945.
SECRET.
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Section 1.
- 7 NOV 1945
Copy No.
132
Military Attache s intelligence Summcury No. 34, Secret, for the Period
^Ith August to 2nd September, 1945.— {Communicated in Tehran Despatch
No. 311 of Srd September; Received l^th September)
Persian Affairs.
Political.
1. The minority and majority in the Majlis still refuse to come to terms
and no Majlis business has been done. On the 26th August the Prime Minister
tabled a single article Bill for the ratification of the United Nations Charter.
The long-awaited debate on the Government's programme was begun but ended
in disorder. An attack was made on the Azerbaijan Deputy, Hovanessian, on
account of an article in an Armenian paper published in Tabriz in which he
had advocated the retention of Russian troops in Persia for so long as a
“ reactionary Government ” was in power. It is believed that the attack would
have developed into a request for deprivation of parliamentary immunity and
subsequent impeachment, but Hovanessian feigned sickness and made good his
escape from the chamber.
Internal Security.
Azerbaijan.
2. The situation in Maragheh (see paragraph 13 of last Intelligence
Summary) has deteriorated sharply. The Russian Ambassador officially
informed the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Persian Government was free
to take any action it wished in Maragheh and that the leader of the insurgents
there, one Kabir, was a charlatan and in no way connected wdth either the
Russians or the Tudeh. (Since the Russians have never ceased to affirm that the
Tudeh party has no connexion with them the question by the Minister for
Foreign Affairs as to how the Russian Ambassador knew that Kabir had no
connexion with the Tudeh was a shrewd one.) When the Persian garrison,
acting on instructions from the G.O.C., Tabriz Division, had effected the arrest
of Kabir, the Russian detachment stationed at Maragheh forcibly released him,
confined the Persian company to the barracks and posted sentries around them.
Kurdistan.
3. General Jehanbani informed the British military attach^ that as the
result of his visit to Kurdistan he was not dissatisfied with the progress of these
operations. The repulse of Mahmud Khan Kanisenani at Merivan has had a
heartening effect on the garrison and a correspondingly disheartening effect on
the Kurds. General Hushmand Afshar is making good progress with his circular
road from Senneh via the Ab-i-Hang and Durud to Merivan, and the Kurds
have been forced back to the hills adjoining the Perso-Iraqi frontier. General
Jehanbani is confident that defeats of sufficient severity can be inflicted and arms
in sufficient quantity can be collected to merit the withdrawal of the force with
most of its objects achieved before winter sets in.
Mazanderan.
4. Widespread disturbances are reported from Shahi, Sari, Babul, Chalus
and other places where Tudeh and anti-Tudeh elements have come to blows. The
latter have been drawn from the local peasantry, urged on by emissaries of Seyyid
Zia’s Iradeh-i-Milli party from Tehran.
Isfahan.
5. Murteza Quli Khan is reliably reported to be highly incensed at General
Humayuni’s failure to prevent large-scale raids on his domains near Deh Diz,
[69—120]