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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎172r] (344/451)

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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evidently appends on hoi Ter the .Russians think they can apanage a
Govern©i'-General and /irwy chiefs epuointed by Tehran) for, obviously,
high civil and military officials antagonistic to the Azerbaijan
wgiiiocrat Party could k so influence the elections as to nullify the
benefits the Kussians hope to receive from the increase of Azerbaijan
deputise in the Central ^-ajlis
The National Government, Tlie National A;^embl.y did not meet
u r in; thefontn • Jaafar Pishavari reswroed char re of the Government
on his return from Tehran on May l-' th.
The only iianortant pieces of legislation during the month were a
law for the protection of Azerbaijanis native indrstrlee ( see r) a r *a''" r * r>ir 'h
7 2 below) and a law abolishing the special Financial Tribunal * all
claims against the Government formerly dealt with by this tribunal will
henceforth be beard in the ordinary cour s.
GR. People's Arry, In o^der to persuade -avar as-->nlteroh tb^t the
no manners o rtTr ar y in Azerbaijan ought to be appointed by the lo^al
authorities, Pishavert developed an argument not hitherto used by the
/tutonoir lets* that tb«* People* ^ nr y (Khalq Goshooni) v *as not really
equivalent to © standing national army* but was a popular force raised
for the sole purpose of internal s' curi ty end home defence. It is a
fine pointy but s to Pish avert to have some validity*
Recruiting has continu-d throu^iout the month and there have been
constant movements both of 'egular ^nd irregular troops to the provincial
a r isons, v^n i^ay 2oth. the first Passing-vAit Parade was held at the
Tabriz Military College. Two hundred and fifty cad -ts v/ere co i '-sion d
imediately posted to units, chiefly at karagh©* /»rdebil and £enjan*
The procoedin 3 we e r- ar 'ed by a qua rel between one of the newly
co missioned officers, an ex-cab-driver nat.,eci Jilogiran, and a Colonel
Safvat, fon..erly a major in the Iranian anay who joined the ^e^ocrats
last year ana has since b. en p ^teb. CafVat, being one of the few
officers with any daias to military tra ning, wss an instructor at the
College* o ilogiran, who is sold to h ve been drunk at the time,
accused him of blocking his promotion» he should, he argued, have been
co stoned as a contain snd not as a First lieutenant. 3a f vat see in"
the matter otherwise, Jilowiran drew his revolver and shot him de»d, then
killed himself*
Curing the month some 22 o Ticer deserters from the Iranian arr'y
have arrived in Tabri* and joined the people's Army.
^ere has beep an outbreak of Typhus among the r son at
About 750 soldiers su ' ‘ering from the disease ore s^ld to have been
brought into the Hed Lion and Cur hospital at Tab^tz towards the middle
of the month*
There - re mjmours o** the dls®f faction of Fids* is (Irregulars)
particularly in the Re^sieh region. One rutinesr is peii^^r'd to have
been executed at Tabriz. The chief gri evanoes are inadequate pay end t^e
transfer of on for service away from their bom^s. The Fids' is are now
prornised three tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a month and a ton of -'beat at harvest time*
G9. .v il it ary Operations* The Southern F~ont appears to have hern quiet
du T of* tNo Von th, but on T^ay 19th* tf‘ res a
that the Iranian Amy was attac^inf*" in force ocrat outposts at Baghehe
wiohe, near Chahin ^aj. et 5 o( clock in the evening Tabriz radio an’ounce
/that usartial law had been imposed in X iz, v/ith an eleven o'clo
qurfew and that Gadiq Pa legan, the ViCG- W hairr;an of the -'emocrat Party
/ va 3 ap Dinted military Gove nor of the Gity. The next morning, however,
the National Government breathed again and announced that as the danger
/ which threatened the state had b:en roitiovod the declaration of m artial
itiVv w»s cancelled. The p&nic s ;ema to have been caused by an alarmist
and Inaccurate telegram from the ocrat coi-? ander at .^hahin ^aj. a
> more circumstantial story, widely supposed in xabriz to account for the
scare, is mentioned in paragraph 75 below.
It appears that is anxious to i void future clashes end in
response to his proposal the National Government h«ve am pointed a
00 mission of three 1 Azar Abadegan, ^ ar? andar of 1 srafrba, <3.1 All z ad eh,
the -Azerbaijan prime minister' f 1 t ive, and eli J
ot the i inistry of the Interior, to co-opte with Teb\rsn rep^’es^nt-
tiv-s in sup rvl ginq and controlling the outpoots of botb^ sid^s on the
•^ahin Daj front.
/. ^

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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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