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is perhaps that Great Britain did support Reza Shah.) Russia is thanked for
the concessions she made to Persia after the last war—the gift of the Tabriz-
Julfa railway and of the Russian Bank, among others. To America, Persia
owes much for the services rendered by Schuster, Millspaugh and Dr. Jordan, of
the American College. Turkey is praised for her sympathetic attitude during
the troubles of the last few months.
6 . The Berlin radio announced that a neutral paper had stated that a
result of Mr. Eden’s talks in Moscow had been an agreement with Russia for the
partition of Persia. A dementi, based on the assurances of the British Minister
and the Soviet Ambassador, was published in the Persian press, as was also a
statement by the Prime Minister.
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Civil Aviation.
7. In answer to questions in Parliament, the Minister of War gave some
details regarding the Aero Club of Tehran. The club was founded there years
ago; the total income from subscriptions and donations had amountecT to aTlittle
over 28 million rials. Of this, nearly 2 f million had been spent on the purchase
of 25 Rearwin instructional aircraft; nearly 3^ million on the levelling of an
aerodrome and construction of hangars. The balance to the credit of the club
was 13,876,495 rials. There are nearly 3,000 members, of whom 400 have flown.
A py ointments.
8 . Ali Aazam Zanganeh (Amir i Kull) to be Governor-General of Depart
ment No. 5 (Kermanshah and Kurdistan).
Musa Nuri Esfandiary (Muvaffaq es Sultaneh), ex-Minister at Berlin, to be
Minister in Iraq.
Ghulam Reza Kemal Hedayeh (Mukhbir ed Douleh) to be Governor of Arak
(Sultanabad).
Northern Provinces.
Internal Security.
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9. The Persian Government is greatly concerned about the situation in the
Russian occupied zone, where various insurrectionary activities are evident which
the Russian authorities take no steps to prevent, and which the Persian forces,
limited to small numbers of gendarmerie and police by Russian orders, are much
too weak to suppress. The Nijat Committee, in Urumieh, to which reference was
made in Summary No. 1/42, paragraph 12. is employing terrorist methods.
TheJocalEEierorpoTice and an Assyrian who refused to join the movement have
been murdered, and the Governor and all Government officials have been
frightened into complete passivity. In the area south of Ardebil the Khalkhalis,
a Turki-speaking tribe allied to the Shahsevans, having acquired a number of
rifles from disintegrating Persian troops, have expelled such semblances of
Government authority as there were in their area. A report, requiring verifica
tion, has just been received that some 2,000 armed Karadaghis from the Karadagh
mountains (east of Julfa and south of the Aras River), declaring allegiance °to
Soviet Russia, took possession of Persian Julfa. The Soviet authorities in Tabriz
deny any support of this movement, but whatever the truth of the report may
be it may be assumed that no such action could take place in this area without
the connivance of the Soviet authorities. In Southern Majandiran^ the inhabi
tants of the Sang i San region (between Firuzkuh ancf ^ernnan ), always turbulent, + Af>b<MW(y
who have also acquired arms from deserting Persian soldiers, are raiding and r m -> ’
robbing on a fairly extensive scale. The Persian Government has asked the Soviet • a a/ * <f * A 'V'
authorities for permission to send a battalion of infantry to each of the three m
areas, Urumieh, Ardebil and Southern Mazandirah.* €&cA ca** .
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10 . The Persian operations for the relief of Jahrum (see Summary
5) were successful. The rebels were dispersed and the
rebel leaders, Zaighann and Shikuhi, are reported to have taken refuge with
Nasir Qashgai. The Persian authorities have demanded that Nasir should hand
them over. They have already found reason to be suspicious of Nasir’s intentions
and regard this as a test case of his loyalty. They are alive to the possibility that