مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٢‎٥] (٧٥١/٥٠)

CONFIDENT I
rlEEMAiUHAH DIARY FOR THL MORTH OF i'4AY 9 194^.
VISIT T' U- hx^ „ Ya.^ 0 .. u ^QUQESTER*
Flaiis were made i‘or the Duke of Gloucester, when travel
ling from Bagdad to Tehran on nay loth, to spend one hour here.
During this short halt for reireehments, British and Irauiau
Guarus of Honour were to be inspected and a number of British
oxficers aiid leading\ members oi the nritish cormaunity were to
be presented to His Royal Highness. The Iranian Governor-General
and General ohahbaRhti, as well as the Russian and Iraqi Consuls
and the Head of the .Miaerican Mission were also to b^ presented
to H. R. H. Owing, however, to a dust-storm at Bagdad at the
time oi the Bute’s departure from there, the visit to Kermanshah
unfortunately had to be cancelled at the last moment, and H. R. H.
flew from Bagdad to Tehran direct, to the ^reat disappointment
of everybody here.
B. RUbDISTAD; DE Vb LOFmDRTB DURING MAY.
B. The' situation in Kurdistan has changed coxisiaerabiy during
the past month. Since the Iranian forces (under the Command of
Brigadier Arfaa) routed Hama Rashid and his Kurdish supporters
in the Sakkiz area during the second half of April, Kurdish
resistance appears to have collapsed. Hama Rashid is reported
to be hiding in the mountainous frontier zone near Baneh and
to be canvassing a number of Kurdish tribal leaders ,Iraqi and
Iranian) with a view to obtaining support for the continuance
of his struggle against the Iranian Authorities, ahether the
Kurdish tribesmen will support Hama Rashid and his fellow die-
hards will, to some extent, depend upon the manner in which the
Iranian Authorities behave in uraistan and especially upon
the way they treat the Merivan and Avroman Kurds. It will be
recalled that the latter agreed to submit to the Iranian Author
ities and put forward, on ;,pril loth, a number of demaxids for
the consideration of the Iranian Government.
3 . Apart from promising reforms - vide the Government’s
recent declaration regarding its tribal policy - the Iranian
Government has so far not done much to implement its under
takings with regard to Kurdistan and this appears to have made
the fieri van and Avroman Kurds suspicious with regard to the
Iranian government * s future intentions. These ..urds’ suspicions
have been further increased owing to the way in which the Iranian
Military Authorities dealt with Hama Rashid’s Baneh Kurds and
other Kurdish malcontents, it is therefore not surprising that
Kurdish tribal leaders are now hurrying hither and thither and
planning to hold consultations at Halebja near the Iran/Iraq
frontier - doubtless in order to aeciae whether or not Hama
Rashid should be supported in his struggle against the Iranian
Authorities, or whether a settlement with the latter should be
madev on the best possible terms, having regard to the increasing
unlikelihood of their being able to continue the struggle with
much hope of ultimate success.
C. IRANI Mi aDMID 1 CTR.^TIQii .
4 . (a) Colonel Artta, the Chief of Kolice left Kermanshah
for Tehran on May B7th having been recalled, partly because com
plaints against him had been mane by the British Military
Authorities here. He was unpopular and much feared by the
local population owin^, to his close association with the
notorious Rukn—ud—Din Mokhtari, former chief oi .Police in ietiran.
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