مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٧‎٧] (٧٥١/١٥٤)

CON ^IDBNTIAL
K^Rff^SHAH MONTHLY DIARY FOR PBBRUARY, 1943.
POLITICAL
Kurdistan 'remains quiet, although there are the usual
number of intrigues going on among some of its petty
chieftains. The threatened spurt of disarmament by
Colonel Gulshayan has not materialised; like most
Persian military men, he preferred to sit on the main
road, and stayed at Sar-i-Pul Zuhab. Meanwhile it is
reliably reported that the turbulent Kalkhanis have
arranged to deposit their surplus rifles with Yakub Beg
of the Wala’dbegis while the talk of disarming them lasts.
The intriguing Shamseddin Haidari, sitting under easy
surveillance in Kermanshah (its easiness must cost him
a lot of money with the Governor-General and the military ‘
authorities), is supposed to have sent this advice, and
also to have advised the outlaw Jahangir Assad and. his
eighty armed retainers to take refuge in the 'Taladbegi
area. . -
2. Mohamed Amin Beg, bakhshdar of Avroman and a
some of t the late Jaafar Sultan, has spent most of the
month at Kernanshah having teeth extracted. He is
somewhat jealous of his brother Kerim’s command of
gendarmerie at Paveh, and wants some of his own - or
rather wants to have their pay. He as^ed H.M.Consul to
speak to Colonel Mirfindirislci on the subject, with the
result that the latter is hinting at re-introducing,
regular Persian gendarmerie officers there, which is not
at all to his taste. Amin Beg also asked for some official
pay in’order to keep up his status as Bakhshdar; the
Tehran Government’s reply was that he could have £4 per
month (Bials 500), taken from the Governor-General’s
secret-service funds of Rials £,000 per month, which
goes to illustrate once more their attitude towards the
Kurdish border problems with which they profess to be
so concerned when it is a question of nagging the Iraqi
Government in Bagdad.
3. The chieftain Asghar khan^of the Sinjabis (a
doubtful character who is a protege of the Governor
General, Amir-i-Kull, and so is untouched) seems to have
been touring among neighbouring tribes for some reason
or other. It may be a coincidence that the Javanrudis,
Babajanis and VValadbegis are reported to have made a
joint pact to resist forcibly any Persian attempt at
disarming them, and the Avromanis (who admit to 2,000
rifles) are thought to be in this.
IRANIAN ADMINISTRATIO N
4. The chief item of news is the arrival of
Mr. Mohamed Sallahi from Qum as new Governor of Kermanshah.
He