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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [78v] (156/749)
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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5. The Ministry of Agriculture has been given a credit of 10,200,000 rials
to finance spring sowings.
6. The Majlis has, after much discussion and uninformed criticism, passed
a Bill authorising the exchange of gold coins now held as a backing for the note
issue for gold in bars of equal weight. The gold bars will be provided by His
Majesty’s Government and the gold coins will be sold by the banks at the highest
obtainable price in rials, which will be credited to His Majesty’s Government’s
account in Persia. It is hoped that the gold coins will be hoarded and that the '
effect will be to absorb some of the present purchasing power of the country.
A ppointments — Civil.
7. —(i) Seyyid Muhammad Tadayyun (M.A. 288; F.O. 207), hitherto
Minister without Portfolio, to be Minister of Food Supply.
(ii) Hashim Sahba, from Director-General, to be Under-Secretary of State
in the Ministry of Finance.
(iii) General Ismail Shafahi (M.A.-261; F.O. 190) to be Under-Secretary of
State (Technical) in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and also Director
of the Munitions and Chemical Factories of that Ministry.
Pet ‘sian Forces.
8. The munitions factories, which were previously controlled by the
Ministry for War, have since the signature of the contract with the Russians (see
Summary No. 49/42, paragraph 15) been taken over by the Ministry of Commerce
and Industry.
Appointments — Military.
9. —(i) Sartip Ali Akbar Siahpush (M.A. 279) to command 6th (Fars)
Division, vice Sartip Mohd. Hussein Firouz (M.A. 94; F.O. 75) vacated.
(ii) Sartip Assadullah Gulshayan, from command of 12th (Kermanshah)
Brigade, to be Second-in-Command of 6th (Fars) Division.
(iii) Sarhang Davalu to command 12th (Kermanshah) Brigade.
(iv) Sarhang Hussein Atapur, Persian Military Attache in London, to be
Sartip.
Internal Security.
Fars.
10. Active efforts are still being made to induce the Government to refrain
from military operations against Masir Qashgai. General Shahbakhti is not yet
able to act, as the transport promised him has not yet arrived. His inactivity is
to some extent allaying the healthy fears aroused on his appointment that his
arrival in Shiraz would be followed by swift action, and is raising the hope that
the intrigues of Nasir’s supporters are being effective. But Nasir himself is in
some perturbation, and it is reported that he is finding no great willingness
among the tribes to rally to his support. Meanwhile, the roads remain
undisturbed.
Khuzestan.
11. To the end of February 715 rifles had been surrendered by the Arabs.
The Khasraj Abdullah (see Summary No. 8/43, paragraph 8), with the exception
of one-third, made their submission on the appearance of the Persian forces. The
recalcitrant third, after a brush with the Persian forces, withdrew, leaving their
families in the hands of the Persian troops. Operations against the Beni Turuf
have not yet begun.
Russian Affairs.
12. The Tudeh party in Khorassan and Azerbaijan is now publishing
propaganda on conventional Communist lines. The peasants are being incited
to unite to oppose exploitation by the landlords and demonstrations of sympathy
with Russia are being organised.
13. His Majesty’s Consul-General at Meshed reports that 2,000 Soviet
troops with some tanks have left Meshed for Askhabad, and that 200 railway
technicians have recently passed through Kuchan on their way to the railway at
Shahrud.
Tehran, March 9, 1943.
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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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