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southern factories and one representative for the workers are to be
appointed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and it is also
probable that a Ministry of Finance representative will attend the
conference. Dr. Hisam-ud-din-Ihtisham is also one of the delegates;
General Muhammad Hussein Firuz, late Governor-General of Fars,
to be an Inspector-General of Military District No. 5 (Kurdistan).
British Interests.
11. A note by the commercial secretary of this embassy on the present
position regarding the disposal of British military assets in Persia is attached
as Appendix A to this summary.
12. His Majesty’s Embassy have communicated to the Soviet Embassy and
the Persian Government the programme for the evacuation of Tehran by the
British military forces. It is as follows :—
(i) By the 2nd October all British army units will be clear of Tehran
except for small rear parties. By the same date the Royal Air Force
will have withdrawn from Tehran except for a rear party of
approximately 86 British officers and men and 60 Royal Air Force
Levies who will be located in the camp at Mehrabad;
(ii) By the 15th October these army and Royal Air Force rear parties will
also have left and the only British troops remaining in Tehran will be
those employed in liquidation of assets, disposal of claims, &c., as per
list below :—
Hirings, Disposal and Claims
Transportation Finance
Department of Movements
Administration Officer
Signals Department ...
Middle East Supply Centre ...
British Embassy—Representative for
Polish Refugees
Royal Engineers Stores Organisation
(Sawmill)
Public Relations Bureau
Officers.
6
3
1
1
11
1
British
other ranks.
5
5
1
1
11
7
3
6
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(iii) A survey party engaged by the Persian Government to survey the area
connected with the Ear irrigation project will also be working south
of Tehran till the 30th November. Their numbers are as follows :—
5 officers and 100 British other ranks.
(iv) The Royal Air Force propose to retain their rights under the protocol
of the 30th June, 1942, in respect of Qaleh Murgheh airfield until the
Soviet forces are withdrawn from the airfield and adjacent buildings.
It is not intended to keep any Royal Air Force personnel in Tehran In
this connexion.
The above information has also been given to the American Military Attache
and the Persian Chief of the General Staff.
Russian Interests.
13. The Soviet Ambassador has returned to Tehran.
14. The Russians withdrew their troops from Qaleh Murgheh aerodrome
during the night of the 18th-19th September. Some twenty-five Intourist per
sonnel have remained to operate the Russian military air services to Tabriz,
Meshed and Moscow. The Soviet Ambassador informed the Minister for Foreign
Affairs on the 20th September that Soviet troops had evacuated Tehran and its
environs and Qaleh Murgheh aerodrome and that Soviet censorship had been
removed. In reply to a question by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Soviet
Ambassador stated that the troops evacuated from Tehran would return direct to
the U.S.S.R.
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