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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎217r] (434/451)

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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thd iarm^llon of u Gov«iaai^at ^rgainl£»tlon v.nioa « aid
unaertak© all Uxc lA 'Ort and export ouaiaeat. oi Itm provlace#
Itib ilrat ijOimuaif *aioU ^cama to lad lea w that the ^atloa.tl
CiovaraoLant ia tiiinklaf, oa caiiauctliig itt own forelgii r^latioaSi
e^ja oparatt only la lav *ua of Kuseia* -he secoa^ achadie anviaa^ae
the creatloa oi a caap&ay *itu 5 aillloa toaanG capital 9 oa# fifth
to be suhocrloed oy the j overtime At f tae r-at toy the pahlio with
terau of easy pity me at for peasant ana wror^er ©uDecrio ra* A© at
first auverti&eo the sehci&e called for 2 million tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. capital,
hut it seem© tn»t some of the Aerchtmte invited to buoa :rihe
riuiauled tu« idea oi aacu © sum (which would, In fact, represent
nothin* like the value oi the trade of lahrla alone), and so it
was augmented# i*h« Government * a 1 iea se m;i to he to purchaee at
pre-war price© all ^oocL. lor export and ©ell then in tne rest
of Kerala or abroad at tix present market prices* It is a simple
ana t ttractlv© ich«me, ©at so iar not a single merchant of Tabriz
ha© come in* The Uoverm&ent may in tiu- end force them to put up
the money continuia ; tij© embargo ana uy other means of
intimidation at its disposal, but for the scheme to work there
eili hv need at men with mire experience oi the export business
than arc to be xaund in the present Government* If it aucceede
it will mean the end of all private trade here and for that reason
will oe .Ltubuornl^ opposed cy the merenanta*
The Government have decreed that all goodu entering Azerbaijan
must pay cu&toaa duty, regardless oi whether they have paid on
their first entry into Iran, e,g* at Ahurramahahr* Xn practice,
r.lao, due© seem to be levied on g^od& allowed to be exported*
Towards the middle of tae month it reported tnat tK) tons of
rogham were aespatched to lohrtm and thi*t the Goveriment oollected
1,000 toman© ton on it. b^t this m-oy h vc been aecurity for
the return oi tha ©ale price.
The factories arc suffering both from the embargo on export
©Hu from the lack of rwtdy aoncy. ho far, oy eome myeteriou©
means they have managed to ©crape up the riala necessary eocn p .y
dt^y, but tnese obscure uourcea must sooner or later dry up. The
i^achaiaeh Textile Rectory, which ha* Ion oeen bankrupt, has
been re opened cy the Government who have paid to it one million
rials on see.uni of 60,000 metres of cloth to oe supplied for tne
i.my arid Police. There is no competent technical manager however,
ana the lace is not likel,/ to run loa^, without a mechanical
breakdown. The Aran heather factory An East India Company trading post. is also being operated by ti^e
Government, out, &o far a© is known, it has not yet begun to
proouce again* There is & rumour that the Government are to open
a factory An East India Company trading post. for knitted woollen goods which will employ 400 workers*
The nacninery ia said to have been, or is belxig, obtained from
huosie* There is yet no reliable confirmation ox this.
The factory An East India Company trading post. workers arc dieeavvfing what the Xtomoorat victory
and tnc ’realisation of tne people’s ambitions” mean to them* in
the Pasnmiaeh factory An East India Company trading post. •. worker ivho was pr,viouBly paid 250 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
a month ia doing the ©emu work now for 65* In another factory An East India Company trading post. ,
a carpenter, who could normally eo.<nt l^st year on seven or eight
tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a day, is forced no* to t&kt* onu. And strikes arc
in Jmpatible with iiemocratic principles - when the Geaocrate
o.in the factories.
Gpkt pf hiv^x^: * factory An East India Company trading post. \>& ss were undoubtedly very high here
uaner the ola regime, but the present cuts hsv« preceded any import
ant fall in the*coat of living. The embargo has, n^vcrtnelesi,
e«u©ea a slight decrease in the retail prices of locally produced
food-etuiis* nutter na© decreased from 25 rials the poaza to ?: 0 ;
eggs from 1*20 rials to 30 dinar© each; cheese from 1 ? rials the
ponza to b (&© ©old uy hankers); bread (lavish) tram 50 to S 6
rials f>cr batman* un the oth^r hand, wheat nna barley remain at
the earn*? price a© laet month, ana some other cereals, including
bean©, an*., split peas have increased slightly* There ia a g od
deal oi fluctu^ti n in tne price of ^ )«e cotam-mitleai the ramour
that tiiw bov^rnaent uru allowing tm export, ©ay, of aim mde
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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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