'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎198r] (400/610)

ally instigator. So open was tie in his attitude that the British
and Russian Legations had to show that they regarded him as an
enemy. He took money, however, from them as well as from
the Germans and even outdoes most Persian officials in corrup
tion. His son Nasir-us-Sultaneh in the Foreign Office was
head of the Neutral States Department and he also was hostile
to us.
Muhtashim was Minister of Finance in 1917 and appointed
Governor General of Azarbaijan. He did not work for the
Turks at Tabriz, but left when they advanced into the province.
He was expelled to Kashan by Vusuq-ud-Dauleh in 1919 on
the pretence of intriguing against him and the Convention. He
is a man of poor personality.
No. 14. MUIN-UL-VAZAREH, Mlrzd Husain Khan, C.M.G.,
1905.
Second son of the late ’Ala-us-Sultaneh. He was educated
in England and speaks English and French fluently. He was
“ Chef de Cabinet ” to successive Ministers of Foreign Affairs bet
ween 1907 and 1915, became Minister of Commerce in Mustaufi-
-ul-Mamalik’s Cabinet of January 1918, and of Public Works
in the even more anti-ally Cabinet of Samsam-us-Sultaneh in
July 1918. It is generally thought that he and Mustashar-ud-
Dauleh (No. 4) were principally responsible for the steps taken
to repudiate treaties. In 1920 he was appointed Persian Minis
ter to Madrid. He is an ultra-Nationalist and advocate of
“ Persia for the Persians,” and a very able young man.
No. 15. MUMTAZ-UD-DAULEH.
Son of Mukarram-us-Sultaneh, and has about 14 brothers
and sisters. He started his career as a Foreign Office employe
and was appointed Consul at Constantinople about 1900.
He became Private Secretary and Interpreter to ’Ain-ud-
Dauleh when Grand Vizir in 1903, and accompanied him on
Muzaffar-ud-Din Shah’s European tour in 1905.
He was elected President of the first Majlis in April 1908,
and after the coup d’etat and bombardment of the Majlis by
Muhammad Ali Shah on 23rd June 1908 he became a fugitive
and took refuge in the French Legation. In July he left the
country and went to Europe.
He was Minister of Finance 1911, of Posts and Telegraphs
1911 of Public Works and Commerce 1914, of Justice 1917, of
Finance 1917, of Justice 1918 in the violently anti-ally Cabinet
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