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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [‎265r] (529/749)

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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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Lieutenant-Colonel Muzayyini. —Staff Officer General Staff—brother of
Sartip Muzayyini, General Officer commanding 2nd Division.
Lieutenant-Colonel 4mm—Secretary H.I.M. the Shah’s Military
Cabinet.
10. The proposal to reduce the period of compulsory service for conscripts
from two years to one year has been rejected by the Military Affairs Committee
of the Majlis. *
11. Colonel Atapur, C.B.E. (late military attache in London), has returned
from his tour of inspection in those areas of Khuzistan where disarming opera
tions have recently taken place. This unbalanced and embarrassingly anglo-
phile officer "fras warned before his departure against excessive zeal and the
folly of saying what he believed, i.e., that everyone of his countrymen was a
thief, his country on the brink of disaster and that its only salvation lay in
the immediate acceptance of a British mandate for an indefinite period. His
report is couched in moderate terms and merely accuses General Humayuni of
making reasonable profits out of the allowances for his troops’ rations; out of
the distribution of monopoly goods among the tribes and out of forewarnin 0 *
tribes of coming disarmament.
12. The Minister for War and the Chief of the General Staff state that
they are determined to check and punish corruption in the army and that the
summoning to Tehran to answer charges of peculation of Colonel Khodadad
from Khorrassan and Colonel Shahrukhshahi from Kermanshah are the first
steps in that direction. The appointment of Colonel Dehimi as public prosecutor
in place of the allegedly dishonest Colonel Shah Quli is, they say, another earnest
of their endeavours. If these charges are proved and the officers punished the
deterrent effect should be good, but the apparent impossibility of securing a
conviction in Persia and the fact that the two officers recalled and also the
outgoing public prosecutor were friends of General Razmara (and hence enemies
of General Arfa) detract from the value of the protestations of the Minister
for War and the Chief of the General Staff.
Internal Security.
A zarbaijan.
13. A consular report states that there are signs that the Tudeh and
Workers Union have been told to draw in their horns by their Russian masters.
Both have published notices condemning acts of violence committed in their names
and announcing that unruly members will be expelled. A flag march of 1,200
Persian troops through Tabriz has had a steadying effect on local nerves and
has done much to enhance the waning prestige of the Persian army.
14. The newspaper Iran reports that Mehdi Dadvar (Vossuq-us-Saltaneh)
has been recalled. It has been known for a long time that the Persian Govern
ment has been very dissatisfied at his feeble handling of the situation and his
complete subservience to the Russians.
Khuzistan.
15. A decline in security in the Gach Saran area is reported where Boir
Ahmadi tribesmen have been damaging the A.I.O.C. telephone lines.
16. General Humayuni has been summoned to Tehran for consultations.
He has left a committee sitting on the settlement of the dispute between
Abdullah Zarghampur and his half brother Khosrow. He is hopeful of a settle
ment by which Abdullah, in return for his submission to Government, will be
recognised as Kalantar of the Boir Ahmadi Sarhaddi (lower) tribes only.
Isfahan.
17. A reliable report states that Tudeh influence has suffered a severe
setback, as a result of the Governor’s firm handling of the situation and the
clumsy intrigues of Mr. Marchenko, the Soviet Consul. Another cause for the
decline in Tudeh influence is said to be the anti-religious bias in their propaganda
which has offended that respect for the truth of religion, if not for religious
practices, which is latent in all Persians.
18. Correction —see paragraph 17 of last Intelligence Summary. Vahar
Kestanian is to be like his predecessor, Archimandrite and not Archbishop of
[64—26]

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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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1 file (373 folios)
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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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