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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎170r] (340/451)

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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54. general Situation , i. ay
y^crbaljan* the departure of
o a afar rishavari and
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has seen two events or—ie^rcrrtisnce"
the i^ussisn troops and the negotiations
^avata as- ^al tan eh. The assumption last
morfth wes that these tv;o events were interlocVinr parts of Russian
policy, i.e. that the I^ussian troops were departing only a^ter the
Soviet Government was assured that there wr» a cut and dried o^roer ett
between the Central Government and A^erhai^an rivinr to the latter
such concessions as would enable the Russians to maintain and expand
their influence here and use ^?;e 'haija^ as their lever to heave the
whole of I^an over to the Soviet si^e of the ^ence. Nothing has
emerged here to disprove that such was the Hus si an a* intention and h-orte,
but the tenth’s events su~ est that the assumption that the Russian plan
was already achieved was perhaps bas^d on too h' eh an opinion of Sovi et
diplomatic skill, for something, somewhere, seems to have come unstuck.
Whether the break-down of the Aserbaijan-Tehran nerotiationvS was due to
the realism of the Security Council or to the unexpectedly resurgent
patriotism of some rersian politicians, who, like cats, fight best on
their backs, is a luatter for speculation outside serbai,]an. here, though
^ishavari told the Party that he had come back ’empty handed 1 and
appeared to indicate that we were back where we were last December, some
■ |propaganda is turned full blast to
only honest man in the Tehran ^rovem-
’reactionary* merabe s of his cabinet
and on the hidden hand of ’the foreigners’. ,-avam appears to be co
operating in this manoeuvre and so it is not beyond the bounds of possibil
ity that a re-shui "led cabinet of ’honest men* in Tehran may shortly
take up the negotiations with Azerbaijan once more, alternatively, as
rumours here at the end of the month seem to indicate, Pishavari may urge
bis cabinet to abate their demands.
advance is discernable. Democrat
build up ,ava: as-Dal tan eh as the
ment, and all the blame is put n
65, The Russion Kvacnat 1 on, The Ited army left Tabriz with ceremony on
the morning of fray 5th, About 180 trucks, of which less than PV v f ere
carrying troops, some 30 runs of different types, 16 machine-^nin
carriers, 8 amoured cars and PC tanka paraded down the main street an' 3
through a decorated arch out to the Julfa road. The column went all th*
v-ay to Julfa by road, and for several days a^ter there were rumours that 1
1t had gone no further than Marsnd. The truth aeema to be that it was
in fact halted by a broken bridge and did not cross the Area river until
•‘•ay 9th, On ¥iay 5th., also, all hi-inrs in the town w^e evacuated *nd
the barracks finally handed over to the Azerbaijan Army. The Azerbaijan
Army took custody of moat of the private property which the Russiansfc®
had occupied. By way 6th, the only uniformed 'fashions remaining in the
town ware some six or seven member* of the para-military railway corps,
Reports, which It was impossible to check by personal reconnaissance
but which are believed to be true, indicate that all other towns of
Azerbaijan were evacuated before May 5th,
There is still no conclusive evidence that the itossians have left
no war material behind in the hands of the /tzerbaij an Army, or, indeed,
that they may not have some forces of their own still in the province,
out the weight of the available evidence is against that belief, The
case for believing that there is still Russian war-material in the
province rests on statements of some -Azerbaijan soldiers and on the
’t that the People’s Army bas been using artillery and mortars against
the Partisans bouth of denj an. Dut the soldiers* statements are not
supported by any reliable eye-witness and may, moreover, may be inspired v
for the purpose of bluffing Tehran, while the guns the Democrats are
using in the South may be those captured from the Iranian garrison here
last December. r fhe People* s Amy was undoubtedly supplied with artillery
by the Russians and used it gaily for practice during April,.but no-one
has seen any of it since the last week in *<nril f while, on the other harv'T*
there are reports too numerous and circumstantial to be wholly discounted
that the whole of this artillery was handed back to the dussisns a few
days before the evacuation. V \ / /
The same applies to Soviet military Instructors* there, were about

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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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