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Coll 28/21(2) ‘Persia. Azerbaijan: Persia, Russian and Persia – Turkish Frontier.’ [327r] (659/763)
The record is made up of 1 file (377 folios). It was created in 3 May 1946-15 Dec 1947. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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FILE COPY
[EN CLAIR]
CABINET DISTRIBUTION
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FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN .OFFICE
Mr. Le Rougetel,
No. 683
17th May 194-6
D. 7.00 p.m. 17th May 19A6
R. 8.U p.m. 17th May 194-6
Repeated to Government of India
Moscow
Washington
New York for Sir A. Cadogan
Paris Conference Saving
IMMEDIATE
Following is summary of speech broadcast by Pishavari
after his return to Tabriz.
The Nationalist movement in Azerbaijan has freed the
people of the province from the oppression of corrupt
officials and from the tyranny of gendarmerie. Azerbaijanis
are Persians and wish to remain within Persia but they
cannot surrender the liberties which they have won with so
many sacrifices.
Since the National Government has been formed Government
lands have been distributed to peasants, factories opened
and education health services improved, and above all
nationals forces have been established. These things have
proved the competence of the regime. We cannot give up all
these things into the hands of the incompetent officials of
Tehran.
Qavam al Sultana has changed the policy of force but he
will not depart from his seven points because he says that
the Constitution does not permit him to do so. The people
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The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/21 ‘Persia; Azerbaijan; Persia-Russian & Persia-Turkish Frontier.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3417). It chiefly comprises copies of telegraphic correspondence exchanged between British officials in Tehran and Tabriz, and the Foreign Office in London, and covers events of the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946, and its immediate aftermath:
- Reports and eyewitness accounts of the withdrawal, in May 1946, of Russian troops from Tabriz and Iranian Azerbaijan, and the efforts of an Iranian Government delegation to verify the Russian evacuation.
- Negotiations between the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (referred to as the Democrats), led by Ja’far Pishevari, and the Iranian (Central) Government, led by the Iranian Prime Minister, Ahmad Qavam, leading to an agreement on 13 June 1946 for the Iranian Azerbaijan Parliament to be changed to a Provincial Council (ff 278-279).
- From October 1946, amidst a deteriorating political situation, and in the run up to December elections, preparations in Iranian Azerbaijan for armed resistance against Iran.
- From 10 December 1946, reports of Iranian troops launching attacks in Iranian Azerbaijan, prior to their arrival in Tabriz on 13 December 1946 (f 156, f 115).
- Discussion amongst British officials over their role in supporting the Iranian Government, with support from British (and US) officials being declared on 10 December 1946, immediately after the Iranian Government’s military action against Iranian Azerbaijan had been confirmed.
- Continuing reports of violence in Iranian Azerbaijan and the Mahabad District of Iran, including the arrest, imprisonment, and killing of individuals associated with the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan.
- A secret report on a tour of Iranian Azerbaijan, made by the Assistant British Military Attaché, 6-15 April 1947 (ff 25-40).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (377 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 378; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 28/21(2) ‘Persia. Azerbaijan: Persia, Russian and Persia – Turkish Frontier.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:19v, 21r:53v, 55r:61v, 64r:110v, 113r:123v, 127r:172v, 174r:233v, 240r:246v, 249r:297v, 299r:300v, 306r:307v, 309r:332v, 337r:378v, back
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