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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [371r] (741/749)
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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Bakhtiari.
14 Murteza Quli Khan has been summoned to Tehran for discussions. He
is stated to be loth to obey this summons as long as that firebrand Abul Qasim Khan
is left behind in Bakhtiari to sow the seeds of dissension and possibly revolt in his
absence.
Bars. (See paragraph 17 of last Intelligence Summary.)
15. Allusion to this “general amnesty” has been made in the press.
Coupled with the amnesty was a permission to “ bear arms with a licence during
the present crisis." The Russian controlled press has not been slow to detect in
this an arming of the southern tribes by the reactionary Government of Persia
which seeks thereby to start a civil war between these tribes and its freedom
loving subjects of Azerbaijan.
16. Mehdi Farrukh, the newly-appointed Governor-General of Fars, has
arrived in Shiraz. He called on His Majesty’s Ambassador before leaving and
stated that he would seek the advice of His Majesty's Consul in Shiraz on all
matters affecting the welfare and security of his province.
Appointments.
17.—(i) Ahmad Ali Baniadam to be Governor of Shiraz and Deputy
Governor-General of Fars.
(ii) Imad Mumtaz, Director-General of the Tribal Department of the
Ministry of the Interior, to be Governor of Meshed and Deputy
Governor-General of Khorasan.
(iii) Ahmad Qadimi Navai to be Persian Consul at Quetta.
(iv) Yusuf Sadiq to be Persian Consul at Kerbela.
(v) The Persian Press announces the appointment of Hashem Sahba, a
Director of the Agricultural Bank, as Minister of Commerce,
Industry and Mines—a portfolio hitherto vacant in the present
Cabinet.
(vi) The same communique announced the appointment of Allahyar
Saleh, Minister without Portfolio, as Minister of the Interior vice
Khalil Fahimi appointed “ Ustandar of the West," i.e., Governor-
General of Kermanshah. An unconfirmed report says that Fahimi
has denied his appointment to this post and has challenged the
Prime Minister’s right to drop him from the Cabinet. Allahyar
Saleh (F.O. 198-M.A. 253) is reputed, on fairly good authority,
to be one of the three Cabinet ministers who consistently advocate
a policy of appeasement vis-a-vis the Russians in the present crisis.
The other two are General Muhammad Husein Firuz and Nariman.
Fahimi, as a member of Saed’s Cabinet of August 1944 to November
1944, which refused the Russians an oil concession, incurred Russian
displeasure. His reappearance, as Minister without Portfolio in
Bayat’s Cabinet (November 1944-April 1945) and as Minister of the
Interior in Hakimi’s Cabinet of November 1945 re-kmdled this
resentment. More recently he has been attacked by Dr. Musaddiq
in the Majlis and in the press. He is believed to have cordial
relations with Seyyid Zia-ud-Din. The recent change, therefore,
has the appearance of a sop to the Russians.
British Interests.
18 The following item of news appeared in a recent issue of the Daily A ews
Bulletin in Tehran i . -p ... ,
“ A few days ago rumours appeared in a Tehran paper that a Imtisn
firm was exploiting chrome deposits in Iranian Baluchistan. This absurd
allegation was denied by the B.B.C. m Us Person service of the
11 th December. It was not considered necessary to repeat the denial m r
country since of course, anyone is free to go to Baluchistan to see the tacts
for himself the same applies to other equally ridiculous rumours of what
s happening in Baluchistan. Commentators point out that so far no
ndependent witnesses have been permitted to proceed to the north to investi
gate charges of illegal exploitation of petroleum m Azerbaijan and
Mazanderan.”
[73-161]
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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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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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- 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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