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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [192v] (384/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. 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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(£5,000) are provided for conscription expenses, 6 million (£75,000) for the
frontier guards and 25,678,400 rials (£320.980) for the gendarmerie. Tlum, the
total military expenditure amounts to 375,808,380 rials (£4,697,604) or 37 o per
cent, of the total budgeted expenditure of the country. In addition to the above,
in the supplementary estimates a credit of £2 million was approved for the
Ministry of War. This, presumably, is to be provided out of the Iranian Govern
ment's holdings abroad and is intended for the purchase of military stores.
(3) Strength.
269. The strength of the Iranian army, as estimated on the 1st June, 1936,
was 96,462 of all ranks. This figure represents an increase of 9,413 over the
estimated strength for 1935.
Constituting the
Central Garrison.
(4) Organisation.
270. A degree of stability, not hitherto noticeable, appears to have been
reached in the organisation of the Iranian forces. Briefly stated, that
organisation is as follows :—
The 1st Cavalry Division
The 1st Infantry Division
The 2nd Infantry Division
The 3rd (Western Azerbaijan) Division.
The 4th (Eastern Azerbaijan) Division.
The 5th (Senneh) Division.
The 6th (Khuzistan) Division.
The 7th (Ears) Division.
The 8th (Mekran) Division.
The 9th (Khorasan) Division.
The Gilan Independent Composite Brigade.
The Kermanshah Independent Composite Brigade.
The Isfahan Independent Composite Brigade.
The Kerman Independent Composite Brigade.
The Turcoman Sahra Independent Composite Regiment.
The Gurgan Independent Composite Regiment.
The Bandar Abbas Independent Composite Regiment.
(5) Armament.
271. No accurate information is available, but large shipments of arms and
ammunition have been landed at Bandar Shahpur throughout the year. These
included thirty light tanks built by the Czechoslovakian firm of Moravska.
Replacements of obsolete arms and supplies of ammunition have been reaching
the provincial formations from the arsenals of Tehran.
(6) Remounts.
272. A draft of 500 light artillery horses arrived from Hungary in the
summer. They are reported to have cost about £25 apiece in the country of
origin. Those seen are not of a good stamp, and do not thrive on the Iranian
barley. Over 100 cases of piroplasmosis have occurred. Most of these horses are
geldings, but a few entires were purchased. It is most unlikely that breeding
from two such extreme types as these and the light, Iranian, plateau-bred pony
will result in the production of a suitable animal.
(7) Changes in the higher Appointments.
273. The only important change which occurred during the year was the
dismissal of Sar Lashgar Muhammad Nakhchevan, Amir Muwassiq, and his
replacement as Minister of War by Sar Lashgar Ismail Amir Fazli. The new
Minister appears to resemble his predecessor in stolidity, brainlessness, lack of
initiative and settled conviction that whatever problem arises it will be better
to ask his master.
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
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 (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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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 321; 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 file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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