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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [349r] (700/1237)
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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March 12th, dissatisfaction with the renewed postponement was ex
pressed in several quarters. Consequently it is now announced that
the notices are to he posted on February hist, the elections starting
ten days later, i&ibassir Hoshani naa held a meeting of the leading
political personalities to ooauaunicate his intention of having the
elections conducted on proper lines, free fro«i bribex*y f intimidation
or other irregular practices. He proposed to the meeting that they
/^should co-operate in this effort and help with the supervision of the
(elections especially in the villages, notices signed by the Farmandar
and iizucU have also oeen posted in tne town to the effect that the
complaints made against tne Electoral Committee had been investigated
and found to be groundless: that the Oovemiaent was not giving
support to any individual candidates but desired the elections to be
free: that any suitable person might become a candidate: that the
political parties must assist in keeping good order, and, finally,
that the elections will take place very shortly. In the meantime the
gendarmes are already at work canvassing in the villages for
Iskandarl, the former deputy, who has the advantage of being a near
relative of the assistant Commandant of the Gendarmerie.
The position with regard to the Soviet candidates remains
obscure. It was said at one moment that the Bussiana would after all
be satisfied with the election of Plshivari and Ipekohian only, thus
making agreement with the Government possible, but the latest report
is that they have again increased their demands and are insisting on
Mashinohi and Musavi as well. Possibly this is a move by which they
eventually hope to be able to compromise for Maahinchi as their third
candidate. The official of the Soviet Consulate-General mostly
concerned in the negotiations is a Caucasian named Guliov. Members
of the Soviet Trade Delegation are also active. The situation is
said to be causing a good deal of anxiety to Azudi as he doubts ^is
ability to control it successfully. A further postponement would
occasion no surprise. ^ ^ r
'Tudeh Iran* have continued to keep themselves to the fore. On
February 6th they organised a procession of three to four hundred
people who paraded the main etreet of Tabriz bearing placards with
the inscription: ^Elections must start immediately, tfo meeting of
the Majlis until the Azerbaijan deputies are elected." The procession
made its way to the post office to send a telegram in the same sense
to the Prime Minister.
33. Rezaieh Election. The unsuccessful Tudeh Iran candidate alleges
that his successful rival, tfohsin Sadigi Afshar, bribed the Governor-
General, Dr. Earzeban, with 150,000 rials to obtain poiiot? a^d
gendarmerie support with the electorate. He also asserts that no
voting boxes were sent to the Kurdish districts.
34 . A Prophet is not without Honour ..... Kmsravi, u Tabriz!, editor
of the Tehran paper t Paroham’, claims to be the prophet oi a new
revelation and that the tine has come to acrap the old religious
books, including the Koran. Hie sect, known as the f Azerdagan , hab
some adherents in Tabriz and a few days ago at one of their meetings
thev ceremonially burnt two venerated Moslem books. The news spread,
fanaticism was aroused and Yahya Xalami, the member ot ^He sect
responsible for the burning, was set on in the market on the 14*n
instant by « crowd who would have done him to death had he not been
able to take refuge in a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, where he was hidden until the
police came to give him the greater security of a police station.
The crowd also sacked the meeting room of the sect, general
spread tnrough the bazaars ana merchants fsariag a riot closed tneii
shops.
3b. Russian Aifalrs. Major-General GlinsKi Michael Yusefovlch has
replaced General Gaidukov as commander of the troops
He was to have occupied u large house In the oeutre J 1
ms hastily requisitioned for him, but has now taken the l0 ™^ n0h
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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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