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Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ [‎213r] (436/1038)

The record is made up of 1 volume (514 folios). It was created in 17 Feb 1931-27 Apr 1938. 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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS Bto^IC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
9 7 5
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
July 16, 1935.
Section 3 ,
[E 4357/608/34]
Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen to Sir Samuel Hoare. — {Received July 16.)
(No. 283.)
^ r ’ \t 7 t mTT * , . Tehran, July 1, 1935.
.WITH refeience to my despatch No. 181 of the 20th April and my
Savingram No. 5 of the 26th of that month relative to the punishment of
certain Deputies and journalists, I have the honour to inform you that the
election of Mirza Hussein Khan Dadgar, the last president of the Majlis, who
is still m disgrace and supposed to be abroad, was invalidated by special vote.
His successor as president is Mirza Hassan Khan Esfandiari, Haji Mohtesham-
es-Saltaneh, the subject of personality report No. 15 of this year. The Afghan
Ambassadoi is convinced that Dadgar never managed to leave the country
and is now in Kasr-i-Qajar, though his son was allowed to go into exile.
2. Of the two journalist Deputies Mirza Ali Khan Dashti and Mirza
Zain-al-Abidin Khan Rahnema, whose arrest was reported, the former is
understood to be ill in hospital and the latter to have been sent out of the
country to Iraq, his birthplace. Dashti’s paper, the Shafagh-i-Surkh, is still
suppressed, but a concession for the Iran, Rahnema’s old paper, has now been
given to Mirza Majid Khan Movagher, who already controls two small local
papers.
3. Movagher, the son of a former Deputy for Khuzistan, has not been
prominent so far, and after this recent lesson his and other papers are less
likely than ever to venture on any criticism of the management of this country.
In the Majlis too there has been no sign of sympathy with the disgraced
Deputies.
4. It has been suggested that the release of fthe two journalists may
have been thought politic in view of the recent visit of a special correspondent
of the Italian paper Stampa, of whom some fuss was made here.
I have, &c.
H. M. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN.

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Correspondence and reports submitted by British officials in Persia [Iran], along with newspaper cuttings collected from the British and Persian press, relating to the Shah of Persia, Reza Shah Pahlavi. Subjects covered include:

  • The Shah’s tours and visits around Persia, including to the towns and cities of Sistan [Zabol], Bushire, Shiraz, Meshed [Mashhad], Kermanshah, Tabriz, Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
  • Reports of economic and political conditions in Persia.
  • The first Minister of the Persia Court, Teymourtache [Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh], including his dismissal by the Shah in 1933, and his subsequent trial, imprisonment and death.
  • Speculation over the health of the Shah.
  • Treatment of the Bakhtiari tribes by the Shah and his Government.
  • The Shah’s programme of modernisation in Persia, including the enforcement of European hats for men and unveiling of women, military reforms, and schemes for urban development.
  • A rebellion and massacre at the Goharshad shrine in Meshed in July 1935, provoked by a backlash against the Shah’s modernising tendencies. Papers include a secret report written by the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan, Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly (ff 218-222).

Principal correspondents in the file include: the British Legation at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare; Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; Nevile Montagu Butler); the Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran (Victor Alexander Louis Mallet); the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan (Daly).

Newspaper cuttings from the Persian press are written in French.

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1 volume (514 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 510; 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. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present in parallel between ff 222-510 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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