Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎177r] (356/1237)

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^ '*n# >ii Lc«?r at,;ed vu « i*e said, aad oa its beia^ iakfrp'reitsd^ tjp him,
uaiu ^i 1 iiat is ^uitc ri^ut '• ihe saffis liussisui ofl'ic4M^ : -ii? said to have
taken Aziz hack to his village near hokan in his oar^|>&Ieh S eea», at
an/ rate, to aav been a pract ical ete towards resti rd^ife ,ord^r ;v i a 1
Mahabad* ] !> "^ l _ 5j j,. , -*
iuis Aurdish i^xioriitant attributes all the trouble to the activities
oi the o **'v ijoQXQiy• Aziz nd all wao t k part in the suo tiu^, he
b-tfs, are meiubexs oi the society* M jreover, the oak an bT'-nch of the
Society propose a to emulate their mahabad brothers and attack the
^uu:*merie post there, out one of the ilici:iaiii Ladens, chiefs of the
i)ehbotrcri, dis./aaaea them*
darnang Dura hsnani uad visited mahaaad a lew days betore this
incident and it is t:id that cart in members of the d *4. society had
planned to sh;ot him; but t^e wary GommaMant was careful to cause
himoeli to be accompanied oy Amir Asad, chief of the Debboukri, and
leader of a powerful Xaction, and managed to keep either Amir Asad
or rone f h.s i‘elatives with him all the ti ;*© he w:>s in the town, so
that the w *uXd-be n sasains had no chance to fire.
i'here is a story, arising out of this trouble at ^ahabad, which,
If true, e^ggeats that the Iranian Government nave decided on a drastic
step to re-establish their authority there. A son of .air Asad of the
Pehboukri states that his father shortly alter the incident received a
auamouB from dart ip huabaaand Afshar, the conqueror of ila*aa Haaald, who
is now in occupation of h.rdasht, to to Gaq.iiz and meet him* Amir
Aead sent his son, wno, on arrival found that Hushaand had gone to
Senanaaj * X'he son spoke to him on the telephone and was inst ructed to
tell his fa",her that Husiuuand Intended . snortly to proceed to mahabad
with a lar^w force of troops and that he desired the co-operatim of
^■uir Asad. Xhe latter was therefor© to gather his fighting men at
once and go to **ahab&d and await the arrival of hubhmand. Amir Aaad
is hesitatixxg to obey th^. order, well knowing husamand’s reputation as
a hard-nater and tioe bitter hostility of Aurcia of all tribes towards
him; realising too, no doubt, the extreme delicacy of the situation
that would be cau. ed uy his entwring Gaai Achamued’a territory with an
armed tree, and not knowing, finally, what the Russian attitude to
the proposed expedition is.
Gazi m aammed f a son said taat his father had been alio ed to visit
uabri z for a fc months on parole, whithe chiefs wno accompanied him
to Xeiiran last „ ear were bein^ kept there as hostages, it would seem,
ujWvVw-r, that the Government nave recognised his usefulneea in -*axiabad i
sui&xe a* stiycd in iabri* n-.; ^ore than a day or two, and then hurried to
Alahab&d where, according, to all reports, he upbraided the ;)articipat ra
in the riot and accused them >1 undoing all the atlent work he has put
in to try and build up some sort of law-abiding Kurdish society in
the place. Ihe uarm&ndur of Mahabad is reported, when telegraphing the
of Oaui Mohammed *l arrival to Xexjr^n, to have asked that the other
chiefs detainod there may be sent sack to ensure the maintenance of
order.
tl. 4 r p^; ce^_in u^st arn .:^erbal,iun . hile trie fabris Tudeh xarty
take trie part of urus in the .©at, the,/ are loud in their indignation
a fc ai.iat the activities of tribesmen in the -ast, particul ,rly one
^asruliah furtachi, a Shahaevan chieftain in tae Ardebil district,
wn tne„ accuse of plundering villages .,nd sin, lin & -ut Tudeh - arty
members ation b the peasants ior special persecution. "But a longer
protest mas been drawn forth by the sorties of a c© tain Jamshid A ban
istandi ri, a bravo of the haragha region, who has recently descended
on a number of villages near A;lik Kandi, plundered them .ad beaten
up ail the Tudeh members he could find. The only fat .1 casualty in
tnese disturbances is s& a to be a child wao fell into an oven. The
u-uea press accuses the Iranian author ties of inciting and assisting
<i am shi d Khan in his attacks on their Party. m art cle in the w Kharvar-
1-^ jv ' ends with the tnreat that if the Government will not protect the
p^acelul peaauntxv, the Tarty will, and it, with a gesture, can call
*' J thousuide of devoted m^n who will be more than a match
i oi' all the Jnmsnid Ah&na in Azerbaijan.
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