IOR/L/PS/12/3506

Typewritten and printed copies of weekly intelligence summaries, submitted by the Military Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/97(2) ‘Persia; Diaries. Tehran Intelligence summaries. No 1 to 50 of 1946.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3505). The reports cover: activities of and appointments to the Persian [Iranian] Government and Persian majlis; the actions of the Persian Prime Minister Qawam us-Saltaneh [Qavām os-Saltaneh], who was succeeded in December 1947 by Hakim el-Molk [Ebrahim Hakimi]; the activities of the Persian army, gendarmerie and navy; the Persian court, including the movements and activities of the Shah; relations between Persia and Soviet Russia; internal security in various Persian regions (including Azerbaijan, Fars, Khuzistan, Persian Kurdistan); foreign interests in Persia, chiefly relating to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America; communications and roads; commerce; labour, specifically labour relations in Persia, and the activities of the Tudeh Party.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.