Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎184r] (370/1237)

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to oe putting into effect aoiae oi the decisions re ched at
o uference v.nich was noted in tae lost diary, one development which
nave consequences of so i© importance is the effort now bei .g made
Taueh leaders to interest the .urds of estern Azerbaijan in their
programme - a st-rp wnic.. had oe.-a fore shad -wed at the Jonference. The
cn&ngea oi Higher officials that iiave occurred botn at Xaoriz and
hezaieh nave not aroused much comment,it being the generally accepted
belief that between the occupying Power and the Touch c^rty,Iranian
ofiicials are reduced to ^ere c nerg and it does a it really matter
who occupies any particular p st. It is erhaps LndicauLve of tae
importance tne x^dch * arty has new ascuat d in the life of this fr evince
that rumours uave begm to circulate oi the t riaation of an nnti Tudeh
• arty,auout which,however,no reliable iniormation has jot come to hand•
The baaaar waulu ap ear to have recovered from the first shock of
marshal hliuk >v *s advance anu to have readjustee itself in resigned
expectati n of''an early end oi the muropeaa ar • he e from the battle
fronts is oein^ followed with interest,and particu x* curiosity has
ocen bhewn about tae Prime a conference, which, tae .meroa-j anis
liaturclly assume,will have had tne af-a rc of Iran n^der consideration.
ol. xersian officials , carheuxg ^li Akbar Durak^shani has relinquioned
the post of c veriior-beneral of the I ourth Jet an (Western Azerbaijan)
which ue has h©la since July,l944. nines November,1944,he has been
commandant of Persian troops in Tabriz and has end©av ired to manage
the affairs of .ebt rii .m.erbaijan through a deputy at Rezaieh. It has
bov.n known for some time that he was dissatisfied with tne way matters
were goin,_. there, ad nad, no corn idence in his subordinates. lie talked
oi resigning early in the m nth,but his resignation may nave been
anticipated by the Ministry, his departure from xiezalen was generally
regretted by the a or. eubstant-al inliacltauta who a ad confidence in
his ability and courage. He seems in fact to neve been the most able
Governor-beaeral of estern Azerbaijan since tne occupation.
he is guccweded by Sa'eed baai’ija civilian who has not >rev; > sly
held office in Azerbaijan,and who la not known here. 3aai 1 i is
ex acted to arrive from Tehran vary shortly.
Garh&ng iiehdi Uuli 2riai,Ghiai of rolice at iaoriz, is still absent
in Teiiran. it was generally thought that iie would n t return,mid it
was understood that Sarhan^ Aodullan Rastegar,who ar ived some time a
ago, ostensibly as an Intpector,nad in reality been sent w on approval
for tne post oi j.xicf oi Holice. ii wO,ne has not been found accept- ole
b„ the wovict authorities,and nas no departed.
The new iarmandax*,Muiiam^ud Hussein iiubtagnumi,who succeeds Aarim
wubassir xiosnaniiuas arrived in Tabriz.
it is generally believed tnat the nasty departure of the director
of education,iazdan farx',menti )ned in the 1: at i)i&ry,w a caused by
visit from a representative of Un. Tudeiu - arty, who ^ave him twenty -four
hours to quit under pain of personal violence, duriously enough, it
is not sug ested tnat tae ultimatum was delivered on orders from tne
Russians. ~»o successor appears to nave be^n a pointed yet.
52. iaorlz ^©juties . Air Jaafar risaivari,Tudeh Iran deputy for Tabriz,
arrived in Tabriz on Teoraary l:th. He aas m ne no Uolic apoear ce
yet,out has been receiving numbers of callers at the house of Hi
uhams .ttary, a prominent local bom .nist and le der of the Tuden arty.
55. xuU^>. iun ai .irs . The only Russian activities worthy of notice in
the yerloa under review nave been cultural ones. The Irons- oviet
oultoral w .-ciety t .oes from strength to streigth, ana there .o id appear
to ue scare.ly ^ Russian o O^acaeian author for the last t
centuries w. oee anniversar., is net edebrateu by a literary soiree
invQivi.i 0 a flow oi tri -lingual eloquence and a fe st of l-:-erb-,Ijsni
uf .0 U . *4- iO .0 .(Oy, .9 .' 7 lo^
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j BEGS. POL. DEPT, j
13 MAR 191^
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