Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎111r] (222/669)

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(30) In the Dizful constituency none of the ieadi^g^aen Teel they
can Rpare the tine to heco ie Deputies and anyhow believe that the
old fende in Dizful would make it difficult to elect a good
representative frota m&tkg theafselve«. Amir-i-.fa^# landed
interentn in the district—most of them now under tTic ^control
of the .utb family—, a wide acqaintance i ^ Dizful, and the
p airport of urteza ,^11 Khan, in generally regarded tfche most
-’ping candidate. Aghmi hajavi, ^resident of the high Court
in Ahwaz, who had thought of standing for Dizful may now well
turn hir attentions to the Mivaz constituency. aghai rnad, of the
i.agio-Iranian oil Co., ha-, since the appearance of A lir-i-Janr,
become a still more coubtful starter. le only other can idate who
peeup likely to stand is laJi Abdur .canim Attarzaden, the landlord,
of tiie ivussian Consulate anc. the nominee of the Abrt.phora.car—
) ehbahanl faction; forinerly a prominent smuggler of Dizful, he is
said to have contributed handsomely to the expenses oi Colonel
tumayani when cotaiander of the Dizful garrison, am is now a
pro^iX io v r iai*f holder * 0 . the : riee r-at ,onO >oi t . ar.; v .he
hpimung factory An East India Company trading post. .
(31) In the Ahwaz-Dwa a.rmuz-hhushtar constituency, no very
desirable candidates hare appeared, unless Abdullah ustofi•ef
the i».nglo--ranian cxi Co. finds his henlth good enough to allow
hi Lo ao so. his rivals would be at present Hussain Ina
president of the innocuous :iezb-i-Azadegan and the Customs
ffic^al involvec the incinent at ;i ian reported i jar': :-55
of the lust diary; (q[ull, an . Lsti tor
and merelu-nt oi ^uiwaz; hr. ^pleasantly— spoken
individual, in whose terA as Dir ctor of ducatioa in Khuzistan
bribery was particularly baa and who now devotes hi/nself to
contracting* -ais-ut-^ ijjar, who shows no sign of surrendering the
peat held on his behalf by ^uitani in iiehbaian, is considering very
seriously standing for AJiwaz or Dnsangird, but is imriiling to
com it himself unless he is assured of official support.
(38) In the 3us&ngird constituency, the problem of finding an
> rab who is both acceptable to the tribes and knows enough Persian
to follow the proceedings of the Hajllg has not yet boon solved*
-*■1 has been suggested that Neqabat, the Khorramshanr deputy, is
considering transferring his activities to ^usangird if he finds
horrarashahr unpro ilssing.
For*
^gd. A. V. JOJjLFR
H.M. Goneul-Ceneral