IOR/L/PS/12/3534

Monthly consular diaries submitted by HM Consul-General at Ahwaz [Ahvāz] in Persia [Iran]. The diaries cover the period January 1946 to December 1947, and describe affairs in Ahwaz under various subheadings. Subjects covered include: British officials and visitors; the evacuation of British troops from the region as part of an Anglo-Soviet agreement following the end of the Second World War; Persian officials and visitors; movements of foreigners; Soviet interests; communications, including railways and postal services; agricultural production, including food supply, food prices, and price controls; tribes, including the Bakhtiari; local politics, including the activities of local political parties, in particular the Tudeh Party of Iran; local elections; local press; internal security, and Persian military activities in the region; regional affairs, including the region’s Arab population and affairs in Luristan [Lorestān]; health, including diseases and medicine; education; meteorological observations, including rainfall statistics; the affairs of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), including a description of events at Abadan on 14 July 1946, in which a riot at the AIOC refinery resulted in the deaths of at least twenty-four people (ff 39-42). Also included in the file is a report entitled an ‘Appreciation of local conditions from November 1945 to May 1946’ (ff 44-48).

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.