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Military Attache's Intelligence Summary Acj. 29 for the Period 2%rd July to
29th July, 1945.— (Cdmmunicqtedfin Tehfan despatch No. 265 of ‘dOth July:
Received in Foreign Qffice*M^~hyNgus1d)j
Persian Affairs.
Political.
1. The Majlis stalemate continues. A recent debate was enlivened by
exchanges between the windy and woolly Dr. Musaddiq and Ali Dashti. The
-doctor maintained that free elections could not be held as long as foreign troops
were on Persian soil. He was equally averse to postponing the elections until
the evacuation of Persia by foreign troops had been completed, because that was
an act contrary to the laws of the constitution. He maintained his point of view
that the present Government was not representative of and did not enjoy the
support of the people. In the meantime Government business is at a standsti .
The voting of a proportion of two-twelfths of the annual budget, subsequently
amended to one-twelfth, to meet the cost of Government salaries was, however,
proceeded with and passed largely owing to the efforts of Ali Dashti.
2. The Persian delegation to the San Francisco Conference has returned.
Internal Security.
Southern Kurdistan.
3. According to the latest information given by the Chief of the General
Staff, the Persian army column has pushed on from Rezab for a distance of
some' 15 miles and the Kurdish insurgents are now split into two groups, one
about 15 miles south-west of Rezab and the other just short of the Perso-Iraqi
boundary. As the result of the successful outcome of the skirmishes at Menvan
and Rezab and the retirement of the insurgents to positions further west, the
Chief of the General Staff regards the first phase of the operations as success
fully completed and is confident of the successful outcome of the second phase,
i.e. disarmament. When asked what tactics he intended to adopt if the Kuids
refused to stand their ground and let themselves be disarmed, he glibly assumed
that the Iraqi army would take up positions along the frontier so as to bar
Kurdish ingress into Iraq. Sarlashgar Amanullah Jehanbani has left on a
special mission to Kurdistan, from which he is due to return in a fortnight
with a report on the advisability of the operations, their possible scope and
their conduct.
Pars.
4. Some raiding by Darrashuri tribesmen in Ganduman Burujin and by
the Kuhgilu in Janeki Sardsir is reported. According to a report received in
the General Staff hut not confirmed from consqlar sources, Kamaraji of Kamanj,
in the face of a threat of punitive action by the Kazerun garrison, has made his
submission and handed in the Government rifles which he acquired by burning
and looting a gendarmerie post some months ago.
Khuzistan.
5 With reference to Intelligence Summary No. 25, paragraph 7, eighteen
rebel sheikhs were captured in all, but Yunis Ali made good his escape. They
are to be tried by a military court. Some sympathy for the sheikhs is felt bv
the Governor-General, a Majlis Deputy and others who feel that they had much
provocation for their acts in the land settlement which General Humayuni sought
to impose on them, probably not without profit to himself.
[ 68 — 111 }
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