IOR/L/PS/12/3519

Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to conditions in Meshed [Mashhad] during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] during the Second World War. The file includes: telegraphic reports sent by HM Consul at Meshed (also referred to as HM Consul-General for Khorasan), Clarmont Percival Skrine, to the Foreign Office, reporting on matters including the general security situation in Meshed, the activities of the Russian military, local public opinion, food production and supply, and local political developments, including the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; six-monthly political reports on the political situation in East Persia, also prepared by Skrine. The file also contains: correspondence dated 1945 relating to questions over the withdrawal of the Indian Long Range Squadron, originally formed in 1941 to patrol the border between the Soviet Union and Persia; correspondence, including a sketch map (f 53), over the position of the boundary between the Persia and Iraq Command (PAIC) and Indian Command. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM Consul-General for Khorasan; the British Ambassador in Tehran; the Foreign Office.

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.