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'Persia. No 1 (1909). Correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia, December 1906 to November 1908' [‎28v] (40/236)

The record is made up of 1 item (127 folios). It was created in 1909. 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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Minister lias, in concert with his French colleague, remonstrated with the Persian
Government. . - . . . . .
On the 19th instant two or three prominent preachers raised their voices m the
mosques and elsewhere against the Assembly. They said that the laws of the Koian
were sufficient for Moslems, and that all true believers must protest against the introduc
tion of the laws of the infidels. The Mujteheds immediately pressed foi the anest and
expulsion of the preachers, who, however, took sanctuary at bhahabdulazim. On the
25th instant there were over eighty persons in sanctuary at Shahabdulazim, and their
numbers are now said to have increased to over 300.
Tabreez.
After the bombardment of the Kurdish village named Bend by the Government
troops, as reported last month, a number of the baser inhabitants of Urumia proceeded
to the village to plunder, and carried off everything portable, down to the wood used in
the construction of the houses. A dozen of them stayed too long, and were killed by the
returning Kurds. The feeling between Shiahs and Sunnis in the Urumia district is now
very bitter. The attitude of the Kurds is threatening in the extreme, though the season is
against depredations on a large scale, but the inhabitants of Bend are now homeless, and
must make a living. The relatives of the late Alijan Beg still hang around the English
Mission, and are afraid to return to their village. Mr. Parry assured Mr. Wratislaw
that he and his colleagues of the English Mission are quite safe, but those of the
American Mission who live in their college a mile or more from the town run con
siderable risk. American interest in those regions are now in the hands of their own
Consul at Tabreez, who has now reached his post.
The position of the “ Enjumen ” (local Assembly) hardly seems so secure as it was,
nor its popularity so general. The members have had several violent quarrels among
themselves, while the senior clergy of the town are adopting an attitude of sullen
hostility towards an institution which deprives them of much of their importance and
emoluments. The landed proprietors, too, find their interests directly menaced by the
action of the “ Enjumen” in causing the prices of grain and meat to be reduced, and the
mercantile and lower classes can alone be considered as whole hearted supporters of
the Committee which was at one time so popular. In a recent number of the Tabreez
“ Adalet ” newspaper, a long and violent attack w r as published against the Belgian
Customs Administration. The native bankers have combined to boycott the notes of
the Imperial Bank of Persia. They organized a run on the bank at the beginning of
February, and very few notes were left in circulation.
Ispahan.
Agha Nejefi, in conversation with the First Munshi A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. of the Consulate-General,
talked of the necessity of forcing the Jews, Armenians, and even the Europeans of
Ispahan to adopt habits and customs more consonant with the respect due by them to
Moslems.
The Jews w~ere in great trouble at Ispahan at the beginning of February because
they had been summoned before the local Assembly and compelled to sign a self-denying
Ordinance providing (l) that no Jew should in future sell wine or spirits to a Moslem ;
(2) that no Jew should hawk goods for sale within a radius of 8 miles from Ispahan.
It may be that the prohibition to sell liquor is right, but to forbid the Jew to take his
pack to Julfa or to the villages would ruin him. Half of the Jews of Ispahan are
devoted to this trade and do nothing else. The motive for the new Begulation is said
to be the excessive freedom with which Jews have hitherto been allowed to enter
Moslem houses and carry their goods into the amderoon, where the Persian lady,
affecting to regard the Jew as a dog rather than a human being, does not even take
the trouble to veil herself in his presence, and that scandals may well arise from such
a state of things. His Majesty’s Minister, as stated above, has made joint representa
tions with his French colleague on this subject to the Persian Government.
Bu shire.
Smuggling in all the small ports of Fars continues to flourish and increase, and the
peisons engaged in the enterprise have now begun to dispose of their contraband ware
in the suburbs of Bushire itself.
The foui Customs launches ordered by the Persian Government from India have
now arrived.

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A publication comprising copies of correspondence, principally between HM Minister at Tehran, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, HM Ambassador to Russia, and various representatives of the Persian Government. The item also contains extracts from the Monthly Summaries of Events, submitted by HM Minister at Tehran.

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