'File 11/44 Leading Personalities in Iraq, Iran & Saudi Arabia' [‎10v] (20/96)

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General officer commanding, Pars, September
1943. Commandant, Cadet College, 1946 until
November when he went on a tour of training
establishments in France and Belgium. On his
return in February 1947 he was appointed to the
sinecure post of Inspector to the Eastern Forces in
the Ministry for War.
First vice-president of Russo-Persian Cultural
Relations Society, March 1945.
Speaks Russian and French fluently; has a
Russian, as well as at least one Persian, wife.
70. Jahanbani, Muhammed Hussein
Born about 1892, brother of Amanullah Jahan-
bani. Educated at Tehran and in Russia, and
joined the Persian Cossack Division about 1916.
Chief of Staff to General Amir Ahmedi in the
Luristan operations about 1928. Military Governor
of the Boir Ahmedi country shortly afterwards,
where he governed with some success. Fell from
favour with Reza Shah at the same time as his
brother, in 1935. Then served in various capacities
at the Ministry of Industry, especially in some pur
chasing commissions. Director-General at the
Ministry of the Interior 1943, being in charge of the
arrangements for the elections to the fourteenth
Majlis, an occupation which nearly drove him crazy.
Chief of Police, February 1944. Head of Road
Transport Department in January 1945. Resigned
two months later.
Speaks French, Russian and some English. The
author of an anthology of Persian poetry. Said to
be very corrupt financially, but is easy to get on
with.
71. Jam Mahmud (Mudir-ul-Mulk)
Born about 1880. Has had a long career in the
customs and other Government departments, and
was, for more than ten years, Persian secretary to
the French Legation in Tehran. Director of the
Alimentation Service, Tehran, from 1916 to 1920,
where he did good work. Appointed Minister for
Foreign Affairs in the short-lived Cabinet of Sayyid
Zia-ed-Din 1921. Acting Minister of Finance,
January 1922, and Minister of Finance October 1923
to August 1924. Appointed as assistant to Prime
Minister, Serdar Sipeh, until the latter became
provisional head of the State on the 31st October,
1925, and then assistant to the two following Prime
Ministers. Appointed Persian Minister to Brussels
in 1926, but did not proceed. Appointed Governor
of Kerman Province in September 1927, and
Governor-General of Khorassan in April 1928.
Recalled from Khorassan in December 1928 and
appointed Minister of Public Works. Returned to
Khorassan as Governor-General in August 1929.
Appointed Minister of the Interior in Feroughi’s
Cabinet of 1933, and succeeded him as Prime
Minister in December 1935. Headed the mission to
Egypt on the Crown Prince’s betrothal to Princess
Fauzieh, June-July 1938, and received the Order of
Muhammad Ali from King Farouk. Minister of
Court, October 1939. Ambassador to Egypt 1941.
An amiable and pleasant man who speaks French
fluently. The Legation, in their dealings with him,
have always found him trustworthy and sincere.
72. Kamal Hidayat, Husain AH (Nasr-ul-
Mulk).
Born about 1880, son of the late Mukhbir-ul-
Dowleh, K.C.I.E.
He was prominent in the political events asso
ciated with the constitutional troubles of 1909-11,
and became a member of the second Majlis in 1913,
In March 1915 he was appointed Minister of Posts,
Telegraphs, Commerce and Public Works, and in
that capacity was suspected (in common with his
uncle) of pro-German leanings. He held various
ministerial posts between 1917 and 1923.
In 1921 he accompanied the then Crown Prince of
Persia on a voyage to India and to various European
countries.
In 1925 he was appointed Governor-General of
Isfahan.
In June 1927 he was appointed Governor-General
of Fars, and in December 1927 went to Bagdad as
acting consul-general. His tenure of office at
Bagdad was not a success; he fell foul of
the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. owing to certain discourteous omis
sions in his conduct towards the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. officials.
Whether or not these transgressions were performed
on his own responsibility or under instructions from
his Government, the latter soon recalled him in
some disfavour.
Thereafter he was unemployed until December
1931, when he was appointed Persian Minister at
Tokyo. Recalled to Tehran, July 1934. Appointed
Governor of Tehran, November 1935 until December
1938. President of the “ Cour des Comptes ” or
Audit Department 1940, and was Minister of
Justice for one day in the short-lived Feroughi
Cabinet of March 1942. Minister of Commerce and
Industry in Bayat’s Cabinet, November 1944;
Minister without portfolio under Hakimi, May 1945;
again without portfolio in Sadr’s Cabinet, June
1945. Minister of Justice, June 1945. Again
Minister without portfolio, November 1945 (Hakimi).
Ambassador to Afghanistan, January 1946. ^
He is a pleasant and intelligent little man. Hu*
relations with British consular officers at Isfahan
and Shiraz were always cordial and friendly, but he
is not a great personality.
73. Kambakhsh, A bdus-Samad
Born 1905, at Kazvin; his father, still alive in
1943, was Ain-ul-Mamalik, a Qajar prince and
wealthy landowner at Kazvin. Entered Persian
army about 1923; sent to Leningrad for training and
became a pilot there; also imbibed the doctrines of
communism with enthusiasm. On return was
active Communist and was known as the Persian
representative on the Comintern. Sentenced to
death by Reza Shah, but was pardoned and then
imprisoned with fifty-three other Communists.
Exiled in 1940 to Bandar Abbas; released on the
fall of Reza in 1941. Married to a Persian related
to the Kia A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge. family who acts as an accoucheuse in
Tehran. ^
Elected to the fourteenth Majlis for Kazvin, cl
help of the Soviet representative. Generally
regarded as one of the more decent Tudeh members.
He is believed to be dissatisfied with the complete
subservience of his party to Soviet interests. Put
in charge of the publicity of the Tudeh party in
August 1944.
74. Kazimi, Baqir (Muazzib-ud-Daulah)
Born about 1887. Educated in the School of
Political Science in Tehran. Began his career in
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, being first attached
to the Russian section, and later employed in the
Cabinet of the Ministry. Appointed Chief of
Cabinet in 1921. Appointed counsellor to the
Persian Legation in Washington in 1925. Sent to
Iraq to inspect Persian consulates in 1928. Later
in the same year appointed counsellor to the Persian
Legation in Kabul, but could only proceed as far as
Herat, where he remained as Persian consul-general.
Appointed Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Roads
and Communications in 1930, and Acting Minister
in 1931. Appointed substantive Minister of Roads
and Communications in May 1931, but had to resign
in February 1932, owing, it is said, to being unable
to build roads fast enough for His Majesty the
ex-Shah. He was subsequently appointed Persian
Minister in Bagdad, towards the end of 1932.
To almost everyone’s surprise, Kazemi was
appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in Feroughi’s
Cabinet of September 1933.