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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎178r] (356/451)

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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question of r^rb IJan node
set lament during the Tfwnth and th^re
is consequently a nnjoh mom optitaistjic feelihg Bmorg both ,, De«!!Ocrats M
and ‘reactionaries’* tnan at ?ny tlme^sThc last swrt or. The
an mm e^ent of «svasi ss aaltaneh^ proposals for a settlenent
and tm < espetoh of an ^zerb ijan delegation to Tehran ?-t the end
of the ffionth indicate that the ^f'air has reached the flt .ge of
ba fainUig bet.een the parties - a process much t oce familiar
and coafortabls to the people of t is pevince thaii exchanges of
jjiplo.aatic Notes or discuss! ns in a remote Security Council. v,hile
the ocrat cress here has not hre the. a ord about the Iranian
prime ^inist -r*s propoaalSf it Is generally believed tha^ they were
agreed between him and the Soviet Jiabasrador and that the Azerbaijan
National Govarrijnent has therefore no alternative but to accept them.
Another noint of view is that the oa^rn^nim' is mt yet finished
and that the Raglans, v.M e i^ing the ..?vam ‘ o underst nr tha t
thev do not object to his prone sal s t may encourage the Azerbaijanis
to dip; their, toes in so as to wring more out of the Tehran
Government „
whatever the t"ut/h of the matter, it ie f<*lt that there 1 s no
insuperable obstacle to • ne settlemmti the hisfians hnve
th' oil concession and on a - urenre of a sufficient rmmber of
Azerb ijan d^uties o th^aii control of the Tehran Majlis^
so th«y a **© not likely to f tickl^ over th« precine for- the
administration of this o vines rill take, They ar^* -ure of retain
ing sufficient Influence here to run the province ao they v-ant it
to be run. The only thing that may cause difficulty is the
sorb a i janis 1 claim to retain thelr o n arny.
4S, i.<ua1 an m 1.1 11apy wp vement • . the ev motion vhioh bere.n towards
the end of karch bas contlmuea atead 11 y throi rho t April. Tvo hig
columns of lorried infantry an» runs h^v ■ left Tabrl by the Jul fa
rood, ore, on April 2oth., © * reliably rop^rt^d to consist of
274 lorries and very probably consisted of the bulk of the infantry
garrisons of ^.ianduab and itersgha. Th ore is no rel iable estim te
of the also of the o the roe! own which left on April 9 th. At
different detea tiiroughr.ut the KionUi seventy-seven itussian tanJ-s
have baen counted pix>ce ding to Tabriz station or loaded on trains
heading North. There is good evidence for * imposing that about
half of this number cai/ia from Aar ugh* or «ianduab. .bn addition,
t^ere have been daily r ovement* of small numbers of lorries
Northward. The miscellaneous junk ith which these lorries are
loaded, ran ring fro:, office and barrack y \imitu “6 to ' ir yood and
en^ty petrol tins giver, the irao res-ion that the rfru si a no are taki
all the!
AvVen the rigs kept by
to iktsrls.
pronerty vith them. There he in f ac t, been no notice
of ony local sales of piliteiy p r *onerty,
some of the troorr are be in r* ta’en he k
a number of hiring*? in the town had fce^n given uo by the ^nd of
the jiionth. The bakery •nd ^ne water-no in t had been handed over to
the Azerbaijan peorle 1 o Army, nd the General Sta? 1 * building was
being O:' ousted.
On April f?th. the Irr,no-Soviet Cultural Society held a ^oir^e
to bid <V*v.v:-11 to the Red It attended by the f^oviet
G#>.C., Li tut onrnt-G oneral Cl. in sky, by Major-Gsner 1. Ataklsbev
(the Chief pol it isal Officer), t* -o ctfc r Major-Qcn'rols wnd nur/^rous
'iolc o^^icers. Glinsky’s ^oro so each sxtolle~ he Red army 3$
he f ? rat army to strike »n effective blow against 5^3seism and as the
rot actor rf Iran snd Azerbaijan aga in^t R^ct 1 on. (The Gener-l
a^ no doubt making the orthodox ©s rumtion that until June 79nd.,
941 the a; \ -a - cterely another Irtpe^ia 1st u? cl). ihe Russian
'Coupati n had, moreover, conferred many benefits on the people
/of

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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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