Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎418r] (838/1237)

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British. Ooasulute-Gencpali
Tabriz
9th July 1943 \
Mr* Ghulaia xiusaein Jurahchl via lied :ae today to state that
a) aocordia^ to oo.,iiioa re.-ort you ana the Soviet .Wbaesadop
iiavc agrueh ® ith tii2 i'eraian 0overrent on the list of
n-hxotaen persons to be returned for Azerbaijan (exclusive
of om Armenian and one hurclisn deputy) at the forth
coming eieotions; if this is true, tnen ;.r* Jurabchi will
take no part or interest in the elections#
b) if however it is not true, be presents hineelf -ss a
ein.aidat 0 for your support and hopes that hit* name can be
included in any list which nay ho drauu up*
o; tin soviet Vico Jr h.rul ..archon.o hue h ^vn viblth g firza
kahaud Agha ui^at-ui-Xslam, brother of the deputy of that
name, to enquire about the character etc. of varies
Candida tee, and is reported io have &&id:“w© wiuat iiave
the good ones elected* u Thereiorc, hr* Jurabohi says,
the Hueeienii. arc wor ;ing to secure the return of people
whom they consider .nod, and he argues that this implies
a threat of eonmuniam, the end of religion and private
wealth#
2, Xhifc Mr. Jurabcni is one of two brothers mo mauage the
affairs of the j^irkat Sab&ziyi Aisamc^i va Bafandagl leshmineh,
for whose well-equipped laodern spinning aiui weaving mills X
sought last year to engage British experts# The JurabCi.;i family
u*d others in Taoriz have invested much of their capital in this
pi.jfit. They are apprehensive about the future, and concerned
because the ten—rial shares oi their company gtaiui fit £>:lb#bii,
wi^ereas those ot tne wool xsct- ry at Atnaiian have risen with
riuihb pricey to ..Is• 300# limra nu icau-n, mr• ^umbeni says,
except tr^ t in# husslsns an here und tnc gx’itich in Igfaiisn*
3# I assured -.i'# Jux^ibuni ti*at, while i w all not v.cll informed
ah out tne political plans which mie,nt oe hutohidg in Tehran, X
{joaid assure him tout fne report mcnfioiiwu in a) uoove was pure
fabriesation, no far ao you were concerned• i nUtgcsted too
that it was easy to jump to wrong conci usions ah out mx*# ^urchcnico * s
enquiries) local politics wei*e Uls field anu it would co nis job ^
to inform himself of aevelapmonts and personal it is a md it did not
follow that tht?re any intention to insist on uin election of
purely pro*»Hussian repreaentatives# X would have taien. this line
even if i had not thought it nee© as ary to allow for tin possibility
that nr. jurabchi might repeat arsythin^ I said. mat a. was not
impressed, am m spo&e with urgency, even emotion, of the fears
of the soldier citizens of Tabria, who envisage a dtajlisa dominated
by a communist ejntingent from the Buseian zone, passing laws for
the division of property and otuer similar horrors# From tbs
iiussian zone there will bo returned close on sixty ucpuwiesj with
a sprinkling of iaoour mttuuere from the rest of lersia they might
well | ir. Jura heal hiinlts, constitute a party with a majority#
He said he «as not opposed to the return of some of the Tudeh and
othoi' labour candidates, but he did pray that the ‘gentlcocn ,f
migiit be in -he majox , ‘ity.
4. In hr# jurabehi's
deputies who represent
o© ing re tu mod • They
opinion, only two of the surviving eight
Tabriz ;ond district have way chance of
are Jigat-ul-Xslaa and misvani. of the
H.k. Minister,j
British Legation,
Tehran.