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Ext 5000/41(13) 'Persian Situation: Miscellaneous Reports' [‎313r] (626/707)

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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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Governiiient obtained its vote of confidence by 70 to 40
under the influence of debate on^zerbaiian which aroused
feeling against the minority. His Majesty s Ambassador
is assured by the Government that they will now get on with
the income tax law and with economic schemes e.g. railway
extension.
2. Connexion of the Tudeh with the Russians, the
Azerbaijan autonomy movement and the Meshed muting have
helped to discredit the movement. Hence the adoption of
the name democratic for the Azerbaijan autonomy party. Tudeh
Party offices in Tehran have been closed by the Military
Governor and most of the party’s newspapers remain suppressed.
5. British Overseas Airways Corporation, Tehran, ceased
September 29th. Daily News will publish last number October
12 th and will be succeeded by a news bulletin obtainable by
quarterly subscribers only. British military rear parties
will have left by mid-October and only a few oddments will
remain. Confidential. Ramadan will probably be evacuated
between middle and end of October and Kermanshah between
beginning and middle of November. Persian Government wish to
retain eight R.A.F. personnel to run signals until civilians
have been recruited.
4, Soviet troops rushed out of their aerodrome without
warning and without cleaning barracks night of September
19th Pro-Russian papers now boasting that Russian evacuation
completed before British or American but Russian air lines
within as well as to and from Persia continue to run and there
is evidence that number of Russians in civilian clothes has
increased. Russian part of the censorship has stopped.
5. American resentment has been aroused by newspaper
attacks urging that ^merican assets ought to be transferred
to the Persian Government without charge and blaming*the United
States Government for not having concluded treaty. United
States Embassy issued communique defining attitude to assets
and stating that it was the United States Government which
proposed treaty and Persian Government which declared it to be
unnecessary.
6 . Anxiety of the Persians about the London Conference
may not be allayed by the proposed communiqud of the Council
which says that letters having been exchanged between British
and

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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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