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18# Civil* .
a) Hr Dashti to bo Persian /inbassador to Egypt
b) Mr Ghassen Ghani -do- Turkey
(c) lir Hcoayounjoh -do- /ifahanistan
+ (jili Mansur refused this appointment. Para 13(b) of Summary
No *15 should therefore be cancelled)*
19# Military
(a) Brigadier liuhaonod Davalou (M«A* 58 ) recently took over
oomand of the 3rd (Tabriz) Division fron Brigadier
Gcirzan. He has been 2nd in command of the same division
for the last year, and previous to that commanded the
brigade at Ardebil.
(l) Brigadier ^bbas Garzan (li*A« 68 ) was transferred in
September from command of 3 rd Division at Tabriz, to
command of 4th Division at Rezaieh. Ho is considered a
capable officer.
(o) Brigadier Abbas Zanganeh (M.A.196) previously commanding
4 ‘ch Division (Rezaieh; has been appointed to command 9th
(Isfahan) Division.
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done by a Norwegian firm. V/ork on the tunnel is now iri* progress, but
there is a shortage of explosives v/hich may cause some delay. Provided the
necessary explosives arrive, work will continue through the winter, in spite
of the heavy snowfalls which normally occur in the area. The site for the
dam on the Karun river has been provisionally selected but work on this will
not begin at once.
MISCELLANEOUS.
17# Earthquake in Khorassan.
. oarl y hours of 6 th October an earthqukke of considerable
intensity was felt in Khorassan. - Its effects were chiefly in the region
of Lutfabad, on the Porso-Eussian frontier. The latest figures of the
casualties on the Persian side are 350 killed and about 400 injured, while
there was considerable destruction of buildings in Lutfabad itself. ? In
Moshea some damage was done to the Gowharshad mosque but no loss of life is
reported in the town. Great damage and loss of life is reported also to
have been caused in Ashqabad, in Russian Turkestan. Trains on the Trans-
L^b d howev0^, aocor 3ing to the Persian C.G.S., still passing
(d) Major-General Nasratullah Mutazedi (li.A. 129 ) from Isfahan
Division has been appointed to command 6 th (Pars) Divn.
(e) Major-General Ahmed Agha Muini (M.A.119) has boon trans-
Jorrod from the command of 6 th (Pars) Divn to command the
Ind Division of the Central Garrison in Tehran.
(f) liajor-General Mansur Muzayyini (M.A.132) from command of
^nu Division has been appointed Quarter Master General.
British Embassy,
TEHRAN.
12th October, 1948.