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Mr. Seymour to Mr. Eden.—(Received July 19.)
(No. 249.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith, a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 13 for the period ending the
3rd July, 1937, compiled by the military attache to this Legation.
Tehran, July 3, 1937.
Enclosure.
(Secret.)
Intelligence Summary No. 13 for the Period ending July 3, 1937.
1. Treaties.
Dr. RUSTU ARAS, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, arrived in
Tehran on the 26th June, travelling from Bagdad as far as Kermanshah in an
R.A.F. machine and thence to the capital by car.
Dr. Naji-el-Asil, the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs, has also arrived.
The Afghan Minister for Foreign Affairs is expected to arrive on the
8th July.
The signature of a four-Power pact of non-aggression is expected to result.
In the meanwhile it is said that, as a preliminary, Iran and Iraq are seeking
to settle their frontier bickerings.
2. Iranian Officials.
(i) Son Excellence Hassan Isfandiari, Muhtasham-us-Saltaneh, President
of the Majlis (P. in. I., No. 85), arrived in Tehran on the 28th June on his
return from the Coronation celebrations in London. Lie spent some days in Paris
and Berlin on his way back.
(ii) Seiyid Ali Nasr has been appointed Governor of Mazanderan vice
Muhammad Wali Misbah Fatimi (P. in. I., No. 125).
(iii) Hajir, director of the Exchange Control Commission, has left Iran on
a visit to Berlin and possibly London. His destinations have naturally supplied
rumours as to the object of his visits, i.e., to discuss the functioning of the Irano-
German Clearing Agreement in Berlin and the raising of a foreign loan in
London.
3. Communications.
Railways. —Considerable progress is reported in the Iranian press in railway
construction on that portion (lots 14 to 17) of the Trans-Iranian Railway which
lies in the Province of Iraq (Sultanabad). It is said that the embankment will
be completed by December 1937, and that the laying of the rails will be begun in
March 1938, and that junction with Tehran will be effected by the close of 1938.
4. Tribes.
Tribal unrest is reported from the Kuhgilu and Bahmai areas. Troops
amounting to a battalion have been operating in the latter area, from which
150 rifles have been collected.
The Iranian Government suspects, as usual, that the tribes have been receiving
arms from outside, and thinks that they may have been smuggled into the area
via the gulf ports of Bandar Rig and Bandar Daylam.
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