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Ext 5000/41(13) 'Persian Situation: Miscellaneous Reports' [‎33r] (66/707)

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The record is made up of 1 file (351 folios). It was created in 15 Sep 1945-9 Apr 1946. It was written in English. 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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(b) that the Russians had constantly referred to
the 1921 Treaty and assured him with every
appearance of sincerity that they really believed
in a British threat to the seouritv of the Soviet^
Union. ^ The Prime Minister agreed with me that
this was complete nonsense and said he had so
informed the Russians*
(c) The Russians had repeatedly complained that
the Persians were discriminating against them about
oil concessions and had complained bitterly of the
privileges of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.
(d) Although there had been no commercial agreement,
the Prime Minister was sending today to Molotov,
a long Rote setting out the Persian point of view
on outstanding coramerical questions including the
Persian demand for a settlement of Soviet financial
obligations to Persia incurred during the war.
(e) .Then I asked the Prime Minister what he thought
of all the reports in yesterday’s papers (see
my telegram No* 911) of our arming the tribes
etc. in the south, he at once replied that they were
complete nonsense. He was surprisingly critical of the
Soviet press and of the Soviet conception of
democracy.
(f) He expected to §pond the night at Baku on the
return journey and to reach Tehran on the 8th, before
ehe dissolution of the Majlis. He made quite a point
of this. But he naturally gave me no hint of any
developments of the kind reported in paragraph 5 of
my telegram N 0 . 909*
Foreign Office please pass to Tehran and Washington
as my telegrams Nos. 78 and Lgrp. undec.] respectively
botn posts immediate.
1 Repeated toJTehran and Washington as telegrams Nos.
21U <and 2169 respectively]
OTP.

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This file consists of miscellaneous reports regarding internal affairs in Persia [Iran] during the occupation of the country by British and Soviet troops. Most of the correspondence is between His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard) and officials of the Foreign Office. Other prominent correspondents include the following: His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran (Herbert Reginald Dauphin Gybbon-Monypenny; Harold Lister Farquhar), His Majesty's Ambassador in Washington (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, referred to in the correspondence as Earl of Halifax), His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow (Archibald Clark Kerr), and His Majesty's Ambassador in Baghdad (Hugh Stonehewer Bird).

The correspondence includes discussion of the following:

  • The reported suppression by the Persian Government of the newspapers of certain political parties and unions.
  • Reports that the Soviet military authorities are providing assistance to the political movement for autonomy in the north Persian region of Azerbaijan.
  • The policies of several Persian political parties, most notably the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (i.e. the north-west region of Persia – much of the correspondence concerns the latter party's control of Tabriz from late 1945).
  • The formation of a Kurdish republic at Mahabad.
  • Reports of labour unrest in Persia, including strikes by employees of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
  • Political affairs in Persia, including appointments, resignations, Cabinet reshuffles and the Persian Government's postponement of parliamentary elections until the withdrawal of Allied troops.
  • Anglo-Soviet disagreement regarding the withdrawal of their respective forces from Persia.
  • Russo-Persian relations and the Persian Prime Minister's [Ahmad Qavām] visit to Moscow in February 1946.

The file includes two dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence (folios 2-3).

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1 file (351 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 353; these numbers are written in pencil 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.

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