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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [30v] (60/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 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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and nuts, motor vehicles, tyres and tubes cotton, wool, jute and hemp products,
cotton and woollen materials, threads and yarns, paper, dyes, drugs, tobacco.
Currency Situation,.
5. A crisis developed last week when the Persian Government declined to
accept further deliveries of sterling on the grounds that they were short of rials.
They also complained that they had not, as yet, received any benefit from the
gold conversion clause of the Financial Agreement of May 1942. Of the
700 million rials additional note issue authorised last March, 400 million rials
was put into circulation, but \the Government did not specifically take up the
300 million rials credit author\$ed for internal purchases. The shortage there
fore is due to the failure of the Persian Government to take appropriate action.
Pressure has been brought to bear on them and they have now agreed to release
a substantial amount of currency, sufficient to tide over the present difficulties.
His Majesty’s Government, on their part, are willing to make available a gold
equivalent of £2 million.
Attitude towards the War.
6. The Government, officials and the public are much concerned with the
question of what is to be done if (most Persians say “ when ”) the Germans reach
Persia. Will they treat Persia as an enemy by virtue of the Treaty of Alliance
with the Allies? Should the Government remain in Tehran and make the best
possible terms with Germany ? What should be the role of the Persian forces,
committed as they are by the treaty to maintain internal security? The Alliance
is not popular and the Allies increasingly unpopular. Persians hanker for the
conditions of the last war when, in spite of being invaded by both sides, Persia
was committed to neither.
A fpointments — Civil.
7. —(i) Abul Qasim Bakhtiari (son of Amir Mufakham), to be Governor of
Lurdekan.
(ii) Manushir Assad Bakhtiari (a younger brother of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Assad, a former
Minister of War, murdered in prison by order of Reza Shah), to be Governor of
Chahar Mahal.
(iii) Dr. Ali Amini (F.O. 14, M.A. 20), Under-Secretary of State at the
Ministry of Finance, to be Under-Secretary of State to the President of the
Council.
(iv) Abbas Iskandari, editor of the Siasat, the organ of the Tudeh party, to
be a director of the Iran Insurance Company.
The last appointment may indicate a desire on the part of the Prime Minister
to placate the Tudeh party.
Persian Army.
. .8. I n Summary No. 31/42 , paragraph 11, the abolition of the Shah’s
Military Cabinet was reported. - It has now been announced that Sarlashkar
Amanullah Jahanbani, Minister for War in Soheily’s Cabinet, has been appointed
its chief. The Military Cabinet is still non-existent, and it is supposed that the
appointment has been made solely to provide a livelihood for the honest and
agreeable ex-Minister.
9. There has again been some abusive criticism of the army in the press,
and a number of Deputies have presented to the Majlis a Bill which, if it were
approved, would reduce the present strength of the army and to a greater degree
the strength of the reserves. It has been suggested that the object of this is to
reduce the possibility of Persia being drawn into the war.
10. Brigadier Seifullah Shihap, Commandant of the Military Cadet School,
was assassinated by a cadet whom he had recently expelled from the school with
a number of others. He was one of the best qualified officers in the Persian armv
and one of the very few who are genuinely pro-Ally. He was exerting an excellent
influence in the cadet vschool, and might in time have produced a greatly improved
type of young officer. He served in the South Persia Rifles. .
A ppointments — Military.
11. —<1) Sartip Mahmud Baharmast, to command the Mechanised Brigade
(ii) Sarhang Mahmud Ahmad Sartipi, to be Second in Command of the
Mechanised Brigade.
(iii) Sarhang Bahrami, to be Second in Command of the 2nd Division.
(iv) Sartip Mir Jalali, from command of the 8th Division to be attached to
the General Staff.
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the 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. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 375; 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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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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