مجموعة ١١٧/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمان، يزد - (بندر عباس): ملخصات استخباراتية." [و‎‎٢‎٥‎٠] (٥١٧/٥٠٢)

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^ Ue has since received orders of suspension froci x'^iurd-n*
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723. i.qai Zain ul Abedin Hikmat, the director of Sducation,
German, has now unmistakably revealed himself as completely pro-
-Tudeh. He has recently transferred to Tehran Anai xaduLlah
Khan Mir Husaini, Headmaster of the Pahlavi School, viio was a
good Democrat, and put Aqai Asudullah -iuhamadi, v/ho is Surongl^
pro-Tudeh in his place. Muhamadi is bringing pressure on students
and threatening to fail them in the examinations unless they Jcin
* the Tude • He is ably supported by Had Mard, the recently appoint
-ed pro-Tudeh Inspector of Schools, and by school teachers and
certain hotheads amongst the older students, who have in. made tue
classrooms a field for Tudeh propaganda. Instead of lessons, arti-
-des relatirg to the I'arty are read out and much of it is direot-
-ed against the Democrats with an eye to the elections.
724. It is reported that ^ikmat, the Director of SducatLon,
now intends to replace ^qai -^-li lasai, Head of the Waqf Depart-
-ment and a leading Democrat, with Jiqai roor Husaini, editor of
the local Tudeh newspaper “HUH UL Q,UDCJb ,, #
725. ho Tudeh meeting was held on the 8th. On the 16th about
500 attended the meeting and Abdul Gh&foor Tauhidi, the English
teacher in local sbhools and one of the speakers, urged his list
eners to elect worthy representatives unlike those of the 14th
Majlis. At the same meeting Rad Hard read a derisive article from
the ‘RAHBAR 1 against the Iran Democrat and their 100th day cele-
-brations of its inception.
726. Saiyid Ahmad Mansuri, the pro-Tudeh headmaster of local
primary schools was one of the speakers at the Tudeh meeting of
the 22nd.
Iran Dqnoorat Party in Kerman.
727. about 3000people, including leading officials and citi-
-zens, attended a meeting of the Iran Democrat Party at their head
-quarters on the 5th. Dr.Muzaffar Baqai, leader of the Democrat
Party, said that in a recent conversation he had with the Prime
Minister he had persuaded the latter to sanction (a) the Kerman
Municipal budget, long under const deration (b) to reduce the barley
content in Government bread from 40^ to 20^. also said that he
had brou^it large quantities of medecine for the treatment of opium
addicts.
728. The Party held a three day fair at their headquarters
starting on the 21st to proceeds of v/hich will be used to meet
Party expenses.
729. The Party have recently established a branch at Ravar
under the leadership of Aqai Kasir Baqai.
730. Reference para 603. Aqai Me Mi -oinzadeh, one of uie
four leading merchants of Keman who resigned his appointment as
-manager of the Khurshid Kills in *hine under pressure from the Tudeh,
returned to Kerman on the 24th. He feels confident of being elected’
as the Democrat deputy for Rafsihjan.
Tudeh Party in lezd .
731. Publication of Dr.Yezdi’s weekly newspaper ”YSZD RAHBAR"
which since the last week of September has been appearing twice a
week, is reported to have been banned.
732. The influence of the Tudeh Party are reported to be on
the wane. Their following has reduced numerically and their finan-
-cial position is stated to be weak owing to misappropriations bv
their leaders. *
Democrat P;
in Yezd.