Coll 28/116 ‘Persia (Iran). Isfahan – Consular situation reports’ [‎252r] (503/876)

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Asuber- from Isfahan (who had bsen Abul palm's lieutenant at laeh In
1943 where he had attacked and disarmed a ^ 8 *va D Sretext of making
collected shout 100 tribesmen round them on th « l >re ^* x * A, A-char
complaints ogsinst Mortesa >li Khan. ^f* h ^ 8 A ^rthere
Khan, -who ovms one-sixth of Bulda^i, had hidden some of his arms tne
and iw any case Buldaji was ndt a very ^able place from which^^^
protest in the ordinary manner, 4 ® §' nf tnia cathering,
remotely situated. Mortesa ^li Khan, having heard ^ Mls Bather
at once asked the O.O.C. Isfahen, General >der, to surround the p^c ■
and dlssrm the tribesmen. This he did very promptly and secuied 15
ex-army Brno rifles. The ringleaders end f^s were trough,
into Isfahen where he releesed them. I ®^*^uenUy
'ladar to make sure that these persons the
Ghaher Mahal to make further trouble. Later they_ ook ro ^ -
Isfahan telegraph office where they remain. .
Aeghar Khan fled from Isfahan and Is now h ^" g 6
of Buldaji. ^hare is a good deal to show that in the u*arji
ineident General ladar played a double game. ^ ^ rst Jj® 8 ' hf .a e
very admirable promptitude in surrounding the Plf>«e; t ^J: s hp °J lec t P ci
considerable effect on the Bekhtieri gmnerelly. ^t^enhecollectea
very few rifles (there are seid to have been about ’O Brno there)
which looks as though he had made aomes-rniegementwiththewoulo
rebels. Then, having brought them to Isfahan, he ,- mn tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
very flimsy grounds. Now I em told that he has tjefh f.i _ *
by the refugeea in the Isfahan telegreph office not to pursue vhem
in any vey. fln#1 aevelopment. in the dispute Is that two of the
null Bi<5© hsV0 Eon® to with pr0J>O8®lS
Quieten the epposltien there, ao that whenJlorteiii
goes to Tehran on e visit shortly, there shell be an appearsaco of
harmony. He has already made several •o 0 ®*® 81 "™'J^Haii lUhSsi. b**
Sslar Anzea in Janeki by Bahadur-as-Saltanert, of the Haji IT if
of the family but not of the family of either Amir ...ofakhnm or 3a o
Mohtesham, the exclusion of *vesban Pstemi from
renewdd approach to the government about the aet * 1 ®*®2L»nt ^twaan
khans' land questions, there is now some hope '•f 8g £®®*®"!
the two sides being reached, at least for a few mon.hs, and more
t».« .. ”“« a «g“ , ilon „. e „ »,„«, >!! to o.rry o«« .
81 »era...,t c.p.lgn ^th ». h.l, .1 t». -my l" IIH Im "m
L ang territory during the summer. Now it appears that the army
propose to do this themselves with little ' 51 ’. n0 , B ^ kh ^ p ^\„!“^°^'
The plan is to disarm the Ohshar Lang M8h,no G fi8 r i l8h . f n $
In S'ereldan who have arms, then to disarm the Mhguhl (SOiaJeh ,.9ttai
r$xU) and finally to disarm the Zallaqi. It remains to oe sftea, how
tnr' this somewhat snflsitlous plsn will proceed# It is thought
knowledgeable persons that the Mahmoudsaleh and the Ituguhi wi tl present
no great difficulty but that the 3alleqi ^. s ^ ow . <
Morteza lull Khan tells me that he has had a request
from 3aki Khan Derrehshuri (Gashqai) for permissien J 0
territory near Ganduman for grazing purposes and that h ® J 183
this. Hb expects some slight trouble In the area ©vo* M»t» wstter.
Sine* Selar Aazsm’s rocall from Jsnelci the _9Qlai au^~
trihe of the Tsmurodi section of the Kuhgilu hse raided across the
Khirsan river into the Pelsrt area of the Jrno*ci >soraair*
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