Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [‎271r] (541/807)

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HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 24 for the period ending the
30th November, compiled by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, November 30. 1940.
(Secret.) Enclosure.
Intelligence Summary No. 24 for the Period ending November £
1. The Shah and the Imperial Family.
(i) Continuing his autumn tour in Mazanderan and Gilan, on the
16th November H.I.M. the Shah, accompanied by H.I.H. the Crown Prince and
three of the younger Princes, travelled from Chains to Bandar Pahlevi. Short
halts were made at Lahijan and Resht to permit the Shah to inspect progress
in building, &c. Throughout his tour the Shah particularly impressed on all
his hotel and estate managers that he desired more profits during the coming year.
On the 18th November the Imperial party returned to Tehran.
(ii) On the afternoon of the 19th November H.I H. the Crown Princess
Fowzieh. accompanied by the Princesses Shams and Ashraf Pahlevi, visited the
new Tehran municipal creche.
(iii) On the 22nd November H.I.M. the Queen left Tehran for a short stay
in Mazanderan.
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2. Iranian Officials.
(i) His Excellency M. Anushirwan Sipahbudi (Military Attache’s Personali
ties No. 282 and Foreign Office No. 189) has been appointed Iranian Ambassador
to Angora.
(ii) No appointment has yet been made to fill the existing vacancy of Minister
for Foreign Affairs.
(iii) M. Baqir Yarasteh has been appointed Iranian Consul at Quetta. He
is married to the younger daughter of the late Hussein Key Ostavan (Military
Attache's Personalities No. 146 and Foreign Office No. 109), who died on the
7th November.
3. Iranian A rmy.
(i) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 17 (current), paragraph 3 (vii). The
order for seventy R.V. six-wheeled motor vehicles has been cancelled. Two of
these vehicles, which were sent here for trial, are not yet paid for and remain
in the A.V. garages of the 2nd Division.
The R.V. cars are motor fighting vehicles, but are not armoured. They have
three driving axles. They are armed with a machine gun, Brno (12-72 mm!).
(ii) Regimental commanders of the 6th, 16th and 12th Divisions who were
recently in Tehran (vide Intelligence Summary No. 23 (current), paragraph 3 (iii))
were personally instructed by H.I.M. the Shah to put an end to the smuggling of
contraband to and from Iraq.
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