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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [320r] (639/749)
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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOYERNMEN
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August 29, 1945.
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Copy No. j 0
Military Attaches Intelligence Summary No. 32, Secret, for the Period
\?>th-\§th August, 1945.— {Communicated in Tehran despatch No. 287
of 20th August; Received in Foreign Office 2&th August.)
Persian Affairs.
Political.
1. The minority refuse to come to terms with the majority, and by their
continued absence from Majlis sessions have kept all parliamentary business at a
standstill. There is increasing evidence that Sadr is finding his position as Prime
Minister untenable. A further supply of money, in the shape of a l/12th Budget
Bill, must be voted in the near future and many think that the occasion will be
taken by the minority to force a decision.
2. ' This paralysis at the centre is rapidly affecting the provinces. Ali
Mansur has arrived in Tehran from Khorasan and is probably busy assessing
his chances of obtaining office as Prime Minister should the present Government
fall. Firuz is still in Tehran and it is rumoured that he will not return to Ears.
Bahrami is also in the capital and has said that he will not return to Kerman.
Azerbaijan is still without a Governor-General since the departure of Dadvar
many months ago. There were also reports of a change in Khuzistan but the
latest news is that Misbah Fatemi is to remain. Kermanshah has at long last
received a Governor-General, Kalantari, a hitherto unknown official of the
Ministry of Interior, having been appointed.
3. Much discussion is taking place as to whether the new parliamentary
elections should be postponed till all foreign troops have left Persia.
Dr. Musaddiq, whose logic is at times difficult to follow, thinks that they should
not be postponed, not because the postponement is inexpedient, but because it is
contrary to the Constitution. At the same time he maintains that the electoral
laws require redrafting. Who is to redraft them when he has brought all
Majlis business to a standstill the worthy Doctor has not revealed. Normally the
life of the present Majlis would end about the 12th March, 1946, and the new
elections should begin three months and the public notices announcing the election
should be issued five months before that date.
The Court.
4. H.I.M. the Shah paid a visit during the week to the Ear valley, where
he inspected the preliminary work now being carried out by Messrs. Alexander
Gibb and Partners to determine the feasibility of the Ear irrigation project.
Internees.
5. The remaining Persian political internees interned in Persia have now
been released. Their names are :—
Ali Hayat,
Captain Matini,
General Abul Hassan Pourzand,
Yahya Vira.
Major Mohammad Hussein Sartipzadeh,
Ahmed Akbari,
Ahmed Namdar,
General Farajullah Aghevli,
Javad Aliabadi,
Habibollah Naubakht,
Hussein Neivandi,
Sheikh Abdul Majid Shirazi,
Say id Abol Qassem Kashani.
[69—31]
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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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- 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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