Evening star., 1946-12-16
Iran Claims Rebels
Have Been Controlled
In Azerbaijan Area
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TEHERAN, Dec. 16.-Iran's CEN
tral government, plagued for more
than a year by separatist movements
in Azerbaijan, claimed today to have
brought Kurds as well as Azerbai-
janis back under its control in the
oil-rich province on the Soviet
frontier.
DR.. Salamollah Javid governor
general of Azerbaijan. and M. Sa-
bostari. head Of the Azerbaijan
Provincial Council, were ordered
transferred here. '
The War Ministry said it could
neither confirm nor deny reports
that more than 100 Russian immi-
grants into Azerbaijan had been
killed by civil police and soldiers
during the last three days at
Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan.
An Iranian Army communique
yesterday reported the surrender of
Ghazi Mohammed, identified as head
of the so-called kurdish republic"
and said this seemingly meant the
end Of the republic" established in
parts OF Western Azerbaijan by a
truce with Azerbaijani separatists
centered in Tabriz.
Government troops, which Trans
Premier Ahmed Qavam sent into the
Semlautonomous province with the
announced purpose Of supervising q
parliamentary election, entered Ia
briz Friday and found that the
regime Of provincial premier" Jafar
Pishevari had collapsed and that he
and other leaders had fled. The Ia
briz government, hearing that its
militia was losing, announced capit-
ulation Wednesday.
Heavy Casualties Reported.
Yesterdays communique said that
the army had inflicted heavy cas-
ualties on some 1000 irregulars Sat-
urday and captured Miyanduab
(Miandoab), termed q key city of
the Kurdish republic" 80 miles
south of Tabriz In Southwestern
AZerbaijan. Ghazi Mohammed
pledged support to Qavam's gov
ernment, the announcement said.
Martial law and curfew were
proclaimed for towns in Azerbaijan
occupied by the troops, but the
Council Of Ministers here decided
that outside the province no such
restrictions should apply during the
forthcoming election.
Uranians in the United Ma
tions General Assembly said in
New York Saturday that the
new Malls Parliament) to be
elected, meeting on a date not
yet set, would act on a draft
agreement for Russian oil ex-
ploitation In Northern Iran.
CUnder this agreement, the
Soviet Union would control 81
per cent and Iran 40 per cent of
Russian-Iranian oil develop y
ment company. The agreement
was made public last April when
Russia pulled the last of her
wartime occupation troops out
Of Northern Iran.
(The U. N. Security Council
has kept the Soviet -Iranian dis
pute on its agenda. On Decem-
ber Iranian Ambassador Hus-
sein Ala, in the latest of series
of Iranian representations, told
the Council the Soviet Ambas-
sador had given Teheran q
friendly admonition" that send
ing troops to Azerbaijan might
cause trouble.)
Proclaimed Year Ago.
Ghazi Mohammed declared the
independence of the Kurdish re-
public" in November. 1916. Last
April / Kurds in Hamadan and
Teheran reported that a new and
greater Kurdish state" had been
proclaimed at Saujbulagh, Azerbai-
jan, by Kurdish tribesmen OF Iran,
Turkey. Iraq and Syria, and that
Soviet technicians had arrived in
Saujbulagh to train tribesmen for
"a general drive for free Kurdi-
STAN"
Pishevari's Tabriz regime came toI
power December IL. 1945, and his
party's miltiamen overcame the
government garrison In the provin-
cial capital Last April 10 the
Tabriz radio quoted Pishevari as
thanking the Red Army, then re-
ported Withdrawing, "since it was by
their efforts that the tyrranical
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