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Ext 5000/46(1) ‘Persian Situation: Miscellaneous Reports’ [‎58r] (115/1202)

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The record is made up of 1 file (596 folios). It was created in 18 May 1946-10 Dec 1946. 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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now seriously considering coition c^n the following lines.
Within the next few cloys o proclcnation would be node
to the effect that the Governnent proposes to send
certain armed forces 'with all constituencies in order
to ensure free and untrammelled polling throughout the
country. There would be no reference to any particu
lar province but it would be made abundantly clear
that any attempt to obstruct activities of the forces
. in question would invalidate election in areas where
such obstruction occurred.
3. The Prime Minister thought Azerbaijans may either
(a) deny the right of the Government to send in forces
or (b) refuse to admit them or (c) admit them and then
deny them all freedom of action. In any of these
three events it would be clear they were ^nyj-n g
authority of the Central Government and an appeal to
the United Nations would [gp^wadec] if it could be
shown that this defiance was due to Soviet pressure*.
The Prime Minister said that he hadd not yet decided
how this vital point could best be brought out. If
the course indicated at the end of the preceding
paragraph were adopted it would, he explained, be
necessary to cover the rear of the supervisory
force for Azerbaijan with a much larger force which
could be used if required to occupy the territory where
the Government's authority had been defied. In other
v/ords it might eventually become necessary to launch
a full dress campaign in order to demons'crate Soviet
stiffening of Azerbaijan military potentialities. The
Prime Minister was clearly reluctant to commit himself
to such a plan but I suggested the following alternative.
If it became clear that Azerbaijans refused to admit
Government's right to supervise the elections he
/should

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The file contains reports, predominantly in the form of telegrams, by British diplomatic and consular staff on political and social developments in Persia; the content of the reports reflect British Government interests during the Iran-Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946. The reports cover developments within the Central Government, developments in the provinces, and the activities of the Democratic Party and the Tudeh Party. This includes accounts of meetings held by the British and United States Ambassadors – John Le Rougetel and George V Allen – with Ahmad Qavam (Prime Minister and Leader of the Democratic Party) and the Shah – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The file also covers strikes and labour disputes, with those affecting the operations of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company being particularly predominant.

The strikes of oil workers in Agha Jari and Abadan in July 1946 are covered in the reports, as is a threatened revolt by the Bakhtiari and Kashgai tribes. Reports from the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union (Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson) cover Soviet press reporting of developments in Persia. A small amount of content is in French.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (596 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 for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 597; 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.

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