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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [271r] (544/1237)
The record is made up of 1 file (615 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946. 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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the Governor-General received a telegram from the Vinieter oi‘
Justice saying thnt It was to be nostooned and the dossier of the
case forwarded to Tehran. The next morning he also hsd a telephone
call from the soviet Consul-General enquiring whether these instruct
ions had been duly received and insisting that the dossier must be
sent to Tehran. There was no desire, he ad ed, on the oart of the
Soviet authorities to interfere with the c/ourae of justice, but
-they wished the case to be reviewed. According to the Governor-
general he retorted that the Soviet authorities were doing just the
same sort of thing as the Tsarist regime end protecting the worst
elements of the population, which, would result in their earning the
same popular detestation.
The Russian censor employed in the Tabriz post office has
been making detailed enquiries about the postal and telegraph
organization in Azerbaijan.
It is worthy of special note that Mr. S. HarcnenRoj the
Soviet Vice-Consul, whose reputation as the principal Joviet trouble
maker w ; s abundantly justified, has batn transferred to Moscow#
2Z9. Rezaieh. The attempt of the Governor-General to extend his
authority over the Herkl tribe has been me-ting with further re
sistance*. Although authentic details of actual events are lacking
it appears that £ero Beg attempted to rally the tarnish, Bagzadas,
Iraq Herkl* and other tribes to his support and that a powwow of
these tribes took place in Margivar. The first reports were alarmist
and spoke of the possibility of a ol*hh of lerge numbers of trioes-
men with the Persian troops, but in the event the tribes dispersed
peacefully following negotiations with Sarhang Kemal, heed of the
Rezaiah gendarmerie, in which h© i® said to have enjoyed th® deciding,
influence of Soviet support. Th© situation round Bezaieh 1® now
quiet and the harvesting of crops in the neighbourhood is proceeding
normally.
^40. Other Kurdish Affairs. A Kurdish informant from 1'ahabnc has
stated that the SurdTsh Independence movement continues to grow and
that special af arts are being made to eiiliat young men. It is also
extending to the tribes and several members of the Mamish tribe
have Joined. The same source says that in all five numbers of the
•Nishtraen 1 have now been published. It is reason bly clear that
the Russians are in touch with the Movement, though what degree of
support they are lending is not clear beyond helping with the print
ing of the paper just mentioned. , . ..
The s me movement has just been ett eked in an article in tne
Re?.aieh paper , K©ivftn , • It states that certain mysterious anu unclean
hands in Mahabad (i.e. Gazi Mohammed in particular) are working for H
it. forgetting that Mahabad, -ardasht, etc., cannot be senar
from Iran ns tliey have always been Persian territory T* 1 * article
Points to tbe neglect of Mahabad by the Iranian Goyernerat. The
opium-smoking Farmandar and the futile head of Police should, tne
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
says, be replaced by energetic officials able to curb »ne
nefarious activities of those working there against Iran. As this
article appeared immeaic 3 t©ly of ter the visit of the Governor-General
to Mehabod ^ the flTit Xi ndertaken by a Governor-General for three
years) it appear® likely to have been inspired by him.
Two cattle-drovers were Murdered by Kurds a few lays ago on
the Rhoi-Maraud road and robbed of their money. Before the Kurds
could make off with their cattle a truck containing several Russian
soldiers happened to arrive on th© scene. The soldiers opened
fire on the fleeing Kurds.
241. An11-Bahai Moverent . Thar© are signs of this movement extend
ing to Azerbaijan, feveral of the less responsible Mullahs in
Tabriz and elsewhere are busy inflaming fanaticism against this
sect and the chief of police in Ardebil, who wee on 1©' ve in ''abriz,
has b en recalled to his poet to deal with anti-Behai derronstrations.
242. Labour Situation in Tabriz. It is believed that the fusion of
the Tudeh Union and the orkers Union into th© Workers Council was
promoted by the Soviet Consul*te-Geaerel, which likewise insisted
on th© appointment of Birya as president, an unsuccessful claimant
to this honour was th© fellow Tudeh demagogue, Ahmed Ispahan!• c
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Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fortnightly) basis by the British Consul-General at Tabriz, reporting on events in Azerbaijan and Tabriz. Reports up to July 1942 are printed, while subsequent reports are typewritten. The typewritten reports are organised under subheadings that vary from one report to the next, but generally cover: weather; agriculture, locust movements, food supply and reports of hoarding; consular tours; the activities of consular colleagues and counterparts; local government, local politics, and elections; Kurdish affairs, including events at Rezaieh [Orūmīyeh]; Armenian affairs; public order; the activities of the Persian, Russian and United States military; trade, commerce and labour; transport and communications, including convoys, and the activities of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); propaganda. From late 1944 onwards the reports increasingly focus on rising political and social unrest in Azerbaijan, which would eventually culminate in the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. These later reports focus on the emergence and activities of new political parties (including the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party), new political newspapers, and Soviet activities in Azerbaijan.
The file also includes: correspondence sent by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, forwarding the Tabriz Consul’s reports with comments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; note sheets covering numerous reports, giving a précis of the report’s contents; the translation of a report by the Persian Minister for War, secretly obtained by British sources, describing military and political conditions at Rezaieh, dated 17 May 1942 (ff 560-564); a report of a visit to Rezaieh in February 1945, compiled by the British Consul-General at Tabriz (ff 147-154).
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 (615 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 617; 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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- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:69v, 71r:136v, 138r:150v, 150ar:150av, 151r:194v, 196r:197v, 199r:300v, 302r:420v, 424r:560v, 565r:575v, 577r:581r, 583r:616v, back-i, back
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