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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎123r] (246/451)

The record is made up of 1 file (223 folios). It was created in 18 Mar 1946-16 Mar 1948. It was written in English. 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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.Tabriz Diary for 1946,
114• General Situation.
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August h«ls not boon a particularly goo<i
month for the Azerbaijan nercocrats» jtheir relstioni with the ^urds
are, if anything, worse? their ne^tiations/vrith tie Central Govern
ment on the future of the Armed Forces geem to havfc struck a sticky
patch, and the finances ar'' in a very poor state of health. On the
other hand, the Democrats have yielded nothing* Tehran’s influence
—*in the province remains as slight as it was last January and there
is a definite hardening of on inion against < avam as Saltaneh, who.
from being the only honest man in the Central Government (about tne
middle of June) is now strongly suspected of being a wolf in sheep’ s
clothing. agitation for the early holding of the Central Hajlis
elections is gradually increasing. Anti-British and ^nti-American
propaganda has continued throughout the month, plentifully supplied
with material by the Moscow and Baku radios.
115. Local officials. The Governor-General of Azerbaijan, Dr.
SalfPiullah Javici, left for Tehran by air on August 21st. (Last Diary,
para. 98). went, on the invitation of ^avam as Saltaneh, as a
member of the Delegation wh^ch, under the leadership of Ali ^habis-
tary, the President of the *rovincial Council, included Sadia pade-
gan, Vice-President of the Provincial Council and Beouty Chairman of
the Democrat A arty, General Panahian, of the People’s Army and
Sarhang (Colonel) Murtazavi, described as a ’military adviser’ .
labi* i Kabiri, sometime Minister of Communications in the National
Government, was to have gone, but appears to have dropped out at
the last moment. 1 he Delegation should have left on August 15th.,
but its departure was rostponed, officially because of the Days of
I ouming on August 17th. and 19th. (ST", para. 1157belov?).
rohamed Birlya, Director of Education, resigned that post at
the end of July on bis election to the chairmanship of the reconsti
tuted Central Council of Azerbaijan Trade Unions. He is succeeded
in the Denartment of Education by bis denuty, Dibayan.
?T«rullah Yegani, formerly Deputy Minister of the Interior in
the National Government, has been appointed Chief of Police at
Urumiah (Heaaieh). He is an old ^ida’i of the 1906 revolution.
The Parmandar of Ardebil, Hahim KHAKPOUH, visited Tabriz at
the end of August, in connection, it is believed, with the trouble
there (see para. 127 below). Khakpour is another ’old liberal’.
He held the post of Chief of Police in Tabriz for a short time
under the moribund Persian regime last year.
GShulam Yahia Daneshian, formerly Deputy Minister for the
people’s Army, has been appointed Commandant of the Nigahban (Gendar
merie) , with the curious commission to organize the Gendarmerie in
Mahabad also. Daneshian is a thug of the type of the defunct
Dadar (See last ^iary, para. 98) and was suspected to be the leader
of the hushed-up revolt against pishavari earlier in the year.
Dome people,therefore, interpret his orders to go and organize a
gendarmerie in the Kurdish stronghold as a rather hopeful mano&evre
on pishavari’s part to write him off. But Daneshian is no doubt
too old a bird to be caught with such obvious chaff.
parabei, who, shortly after the revolution of last December
was "resident of the Field Tribunal in Tabriz, has been appointed
Bakhshdar of ^harur in "estern Azert>ai,jan. Shapur is largely a
Shikkak town and an Azerbaijan Democrat Hayor is not likely to be
received with wild enthusiasm.
116. ^ The r ro V incial GoverpT ent. In the absence of Dr,Jav 4 %
Dr. l A etasF7* -,?? armin3aroFTa^rrzTnd D^uty Governor-General is
Ac ting Govern or-Gen eral.
There was no plenary session of the Provincial Council
during August.
The Praesidlum of the Provincial approved on Aupust 3rd.
a law for the establishment of Villa ge Coun cils (fand Anjumablar).
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Monthly reports submitted by the British Consul General at Tabriz, concerning events in Tabriz and Azerbaijan. The reports, which span the period January 1946 to January 1948, cover: the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Azerbaijan following the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran during the Second World War; the short-lived existence of the Azerbaijan People’s Government, declared in November 1945; the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan and its leader Ja’far Pishevari; the Iranian Government’s reassertion of control in Azerbaijan in 1947. The reports include sections describing: the general situation (with a detailed chronology of events given for reports covering January 1947 to May 1947); the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan; military operations; internal security; trade and industry; finance; communications; agriculture; Kurdish affairs; Armenian affairs; British, Soviet and American [USA] interests, including propaganda. The file includes an English translation of an agreement between representatives of the Government of Iran and the Azerbaijan People’s Government, the original of which was published in the newspaper Azerbaijan on 16 June 1946 (ff 165-167).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (223 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front 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 225; 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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