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Ext 5000/46(1) ‘Persian Situation: Miscellaneous Reports’ [103r] (205/1202)
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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that polling in Azerbaijan will n ot be ra$ fignisecl as
legal until the authority of the Central Government
has been reasserted there e.g. by despatch of crack
garrisons to key points in the province. Religious
leaders have now issued manifesto embodied in my
immediately following telegram and I understand they did
so as a result of Prime Minister's refusal to consider
their request for postponement of polling in Azerbaijan
subject to some such guarantee as above. If this is
really their attitude I find it quite justifiable
although of course insistence on guarantee of this kind
may well precipitate open secession of Azerbaijan, In
my opinion however the Iranian Government may be wise to
eradicate the risk of losing this rich province rather
than to allow Azerbaijani Communists to enter the new
Majlis and by so doing to jeopardise their national
independence.
3. My'present inclination is therefore to seek an
audience of the Shah and to tell him that while
elections should be held as soon as possible in other
provinces they should not be held in Azerbaijan until
the real effects of guarantees have been obtained that
they will reflect the true wishes of the population.
Do you authorise me to speak in this sense when acting
on instruction in your telegram No,1172?
4. I am leaving Tehran tomorrow for a short tour
of the Caspian provinces and a visit to Resht and shall
be returning on November 2nd.
Foreign Office please pass to Washington as my
telegram No.383.
[Repeated to Washington as Foreign Office
telegram No,10248.]
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (596 folios)
- Arrangement
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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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/12/1156
- Title
- Ext 5000/46(1) ‘Persian Situation: Miscellaneous Reports’
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- front, front-i, 2r:18v, 20r:82v, 83v:91v, 93r:103v, 105r:157v, 160r:178v, 180r:269v, 271r:276v, 277ar:277av, 278r:336v, 338r:339v, 341r:350v, 352r:359v, 361r:367v, 371r:383v, 386r:394v, 404r:407v, 409r:431v, 433r:438v, 440r:452v, 455r:532v, 534r:597r, back-i, back
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