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up the party. Further attacks are made on the A.I.O.C. One paper ask^
| whether it is realised that thousands of unqualified Palestinians are employed
by the company while the Persian workers of Khuzistan are naked and hungry.
5. The Tudeh leaders have openly said that it is now their intention to
improve their organisations in the south with a view to showing their strength
by organising demonstrations there which it will be impossible to attribute to
Pussian influence. They have recently established a centre in Shiraz, where they
already have two papers, and have begun an active campaign against those whom
they believe to be the agents of British policy, notably Qavam-ul-Mulk and Nasir
Qashgai. In Ahwaz also, with the arrival of a new Russian Consul, there has been
an increase of Tudeh activity in the Workers’ Union.
6. The internees have been getting much publicity in the press. The Persian
Go\ernment is urged to stand up for the rights of Persians and to bring the
internees to trial so that their innocence or guilt can be established. Great
Britain is taunted with having departed from her usual standards of justice.
Much was made, first of all in the leading Tudeh paper, of an alleged insult by
a junior British officer to an interned Persian colonel.
Economic.
\ 7. Unusually plentiful snow and rain throughout almost the whole length
| and breadth of Persia has raised hopes of a superabundant harvest. This has
not, however, yet had any notable effect on prices.
A yyointments — Civil.
8.—(i) Muhammad Hussein Jahanbani (F.O. 104) to be head of the Road
Transport Department.
(li) Muhammad Mehdi Qahrimani to be head of the Distribution
Department.
(iii) laqi I tesan to be head of the Foreign Trade Control Department
(iv) Colonel Muhammad Ali Safavi to be head of the Cereals and Bread
bection.
The abo\e appointments have been made in place of Americans who were at
the head of those departments until the abrogation of Dr. MillspauMi’s economic
powers.
(v) Ismail Navab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. to be Farmandar of Gulpaijan.
(vi) Mehdi Ferouhar to be Persian Consul in Karachi.
(vn) Feraidun Adamiat and Izzeddin Kazemi to be attaches at the Persian
Fmbassy m London.
Persian Forces.
9. General Razmara is very busy intriguing to undermine the position of
General Arfa, the present Chief of Staff. The latter is trying to strengthen his
position by substituting his friends for Razmara’s ^in important posts
Untortunately his friends are few, and some of those on whom he would place
most reliance (since he believes that if they were once pro-German they are now
certainly anti-Russian) are m the internment camp. It is reported, although not
on the best authority, that both the Shah and the Russians already regret the
dismissal of Razmara and that they have told him so. There is nothing improbable
m this. He suits their book much better than General Arfa.
r }^\ The following Persian officers are leaving shortly to visit the French
Hehf/^S^h mV M at T °V h n Fre {V ch Government: Sartip Jawadi, Sarhang
Hejazi, Sarhang Mazheri, Sarhang Mozayenni, Naib Sarhang Amini.
_ . Internal Security.
Kurdistan.
11. Qazi Muhammad, the Kurdish notable of Mahabad, and the chiefs oi
Summary ’no TU-i* and ( ' ra '' rik who ha d accompanied him to Tehran (set
twT 7 N 43/4 , 4 ’ P ara g ra P h 13 in the hope of persuading the Governmenl
that they were not plotting against the integrity of Persia either with th
Russians or with the leaders of some movement foi Kurdish independence, have
been allowed to return to their homes. Although not entirely cleared of suspicion
ley have managed to reassure the Government to some extent The Manimi
and Mamish are to be paid from gendarmerie funds for the maintenance oi
sixty seventy riflemen each, m return for which those tribes will accept responsh
bihty for the protection of the roads from Mahabad to Sard ash t amlfron