PERSIANS’ APPEAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 277, 23 November 1945, Page 5

PERSIANS’ APPEAL

INTERVENTION NOT WANTED

LIKELY DEVELOPMENTS Recd. 7 p.m. London, Nov. 21. The Persian Prime Minister, Ibraham Hakimi, addressing a special session of the Persian Parliament, appealed to the signatories of the tripartite treaty not to intervene in Persian internal affairs in respect to the Persian forces’ liberty of action.

Reuter’s Teheran correspondent says that Hakimi has decided to send a mission to Moscow to discuss the Azerbaipan revolt. A military spokesman quoted by the Associated Press gave details of the Russians halting troops proceeding to Azerbaijan. He said that one Russian officer appeared in a jeep, armed with tommyguns. He said he would be obliged to the tommyguns if Persian troops did not halt and return to Teheran. The Persian commander agreed to halt, but declared he would remain where he was—in the village of Sharifibad, a few miles from the Russian district headquarters—until orders were received from Teheran.

The spokesman added that orders had been sent telling the troops to remain for the present until a decision was reached. The Associated Press Moscow correspondent says that the Azerbaijan disorders were regarded as the result of suppressionary measures by rich landowners. Informed quarters stated that they were likely to lead to two developments, firstly, a move for autonomy within the Persian State, and, secondly and probably, a postponement of the Red Army’s withdrawal.