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Appointments.
10.—(i) Hasan Ali Kemal-Hidayet (Nasr-ul-Mulk), Minister without Port
folio, to be Persian Ambassador at Kabul vice Abul Qasim Najm, who
vacated that post recently to become Minister for Foreign Affairs.
(ii) Ismail Bahadur to be Governor of Yezd vice Haidari.
(iii) Dr. Husain Marzeban (Said-ul-Mulk) to be Governor of Khurramabad.
(iv) Abdul Husain Shabdiz to be Governor of Arak (Sultanabad).
(v) Mubasir Roshan to be Governor of Malayir.
(vi) Ibrahim Shahin to be Governor of Qazvin.
(vii) Abdullah Ashrafi to be Governor of Shahabad.
(viii) Ali Mansur, the former Governor-General of Khorasan, has been
appointed a member of the High Council of the National Bank in place
of Husain Ala, now Persian Ambassador in Washington.
Obituary.
11. The Imam Jumeh of Tehran died on the 5th January, aged about 75. He
was a brother of Seyyid Muhammad Jawad, Zahir-ul-Islam (M.A 131). Though
keeping in the background, he was not without influence in political as well as
religious circles. He and his brother had always been friendly to the British.
Economic.
12. The Cabinet have now approved a proposal by the Ministry of Finance
that merchants should now be free to import motor vehicles and tyres without
Government control, provided that full import dues are paid. (The import duty
on motor vehicles is about 22 per cent, ad valorem.) This follows logically on other
recent steps taken by the Persian Government to free trade from Government
monopolies and controls.
Persian A rmy.
13. The Officer Commanding Ardebil garrison and some more officers of the
Tabriz garrison have arrived in Tehran. Colonel Zanganeh, the commandant of
the Rezaiyeh brigade, is also expected in a few days. This completes the evacua
tion of the officers of the Azerbaijan garrisons, less those killed, the one renegade
and three forcibly detained by the rebel army as instructors in the mortar, of
which a number have fallen into rebel hands and in the use of which the People’s
army apparently requires further instruction.
British Interests.
14. His Excellency the British Ambassador returned to Tehran from the
Moscow Conference on the 1st January.
15. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has been approached for permission
to open an Indian Trade Exhibition in Persia. The tentative date is 1947.
A merican Interests.
16. The personnel of the American mission with the Persian gendarmerie
as on the 29th December, 1945, were as follows —
Colonel H. N. Schwarzkopf, head of the mission.
Colonel R. Goode.
Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Molter.
Lieutenant-Colonel A. N. Papa.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. Preston (due to be replaced by Lieutenant-Colonel
A. N. Wood in two weeks).
Major J. Diefendorf.
Major G. H. Biggs.
Major R. Waters (due to arrive in about two months).
17. The American Government has obtained the consent of the Persian
Government for the temporary operation by T.W.A. of air-line facilities pre
viously provided by the A.T.C. at Abadan. This, they state, is necessary in view
of the accelerated evacuation of American troops from Iran and to bring home
American troops from India (see Intelligence Summary No. 41. paragraph 8).