Ext 5000/41(6) 'PERSIAN SITUATION: MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS' [‎116r] (231/920)

- f tribes’uan for k' #?plng the r*ae« but ell
our oth r Info nant ion is th^t he ij giving out
•r!e* # hntf^ver he is pi eying it in not that
‘vztxmnt ee far an I know* a
openly mtftn «t '’ ehron end • 5 onr’'ider« hl^eelf
the only mn in rnie iho e n deal -ith tribes*
I i^aagine thnt he ia ryln ^ to Xn nnd the 'rslon
Government how •ucoeaeful he is In keeping order in Gakht-
•— dari end at the same tine trying to show the $f*mnnn how
ewooeaaful he le in working up guerillsa for use agalnwt
us when the ti^ic oo-tea* heth«r the /liena knov? it or not
they are hi a t^ols.
The ^ue^tion n w ao regards Takhtisri, oe T see it, ie
whether r,hidl Is still running hie hhane or whether they
have -lade the^fielveu so otror,* that nhidi hni nov to rtm
with the?a in order to keep control- with tiie riak that in
this ooee the f“hans* u?ilawful ecjtlvlties any provoke the
villagers to hit bock in self-defence* The "hnns have
clearly acee ted 2»hidi f e support hnanxme they honed to
get so lathing for thraselves out f it, as it' thet
^.ahidl promised he would help them over the return of their
lands etc* The point is that if >,hidl hna roally b^en givig
out rifles ri^dit and left there must come a time when the
holdere of theee rifles, if they united, could give him much
trouble for he has not s great military force available and
it is not very reliable. I noti ced th>t he regarded the
recent defeat eua talked by the ersi«n mur near 3ei*a at the
hands of the sshgal se s serious thin? *nd said that its
worst effect would be on the morale of the erslan rmy,
perhaps thinking of his own men*
British Consulate,
1-V'sV.W, 8th Tot. f 42.