The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
Iran First UNO Item NextWeek
 Soviet Request
 For I6-Day Delay
 Ia SOsslOn Unlikely
To SOssIOn Unlikely
BY HARRISON SALISBURY

BY HARRISON SALISBURY
 United Press Foreign News Editor
 The United Nations security coun- ell today appeared certain to take up Iran as It's first item of business when 1t meets Monday unless a re- ported message from Generalissimo Stalin to Tran radically changes the situation.
 The Soviet request for a 16-day delay in the security council session seemed headed for rejection. The Russians asked for the delay on grounds the Iranian complaint was unexpected" and that negotiations were still going on.
 No Moscow Reply
 In American and British diplo- matic quarters there was no sym pathy with the Soviet suggestion that Trans protest was "unexpect- ed" Both these governments as well aS Tran have been demanding ever since the treaty date of March 3 to know why Soviet troops have not left Tran. There has been no reply from Moscow to any of the inquir- ies.
 There were indications from Teh- eran, however, that the Russians were making a new last minute ef- fort to come to some kind of terms with Iran.
 The new Soviet Ambassador, E. V. Sadchikov, arrived in Teheran yes- terday and was reported to carry a new message from Stalln to Premier Ahmed Ghavam. The nature of the message was not indicate It was reported he delivered the commun- ication promptly and that the Iran cabinet met hurriedly to consider it.. A conference between Sadchikov and Ghavam was said to be sched- uled for today.
 The general situation in Iran, judging from reports, was in It's familiar state of confusion. There were reports of spreading rebel lion among Kurdish tribeSmen in the remote northwest area of Iran, South and West of Lake Urmia.
 Three Irarian garriSonS were said to be besieged and seven planes of the Iran air force were said to have gone to their aid. Although 1t was not emphasized in the reports such tribal outbreaks are an almost mon- otonouS feature of the Iranian scene.
 Interest on the current SkirmiSh- ing was heightened, however, by suggestions of Soviet encouragement to the Kurdish.
 The British were reported to have strengthened their guards around the rich Kirkuk oilfields in North east Traq. The Melds lie in the cen- ter of 1raqian Kurdistan where there was a serious uprising of 6ibes only . year ago. Leaders of thiS outbreak are now in Iran and there were fears the unrest might spread into 1raq and into the Kur- dish region of Turkey.
 Mountainous Area
 The trouble area is one of the most remote and mountainous in the world and Is still heavily blank eted with snow. No widespread mil- itary operations will be possible for some weeks until the snows have AslGe9 and the mountain passes and caravan tracks have dried out.
 The arrival of the Soviet AmbaS- Sador in Teheran was marked by new outburSt from the Moscow press, led by the government news- paper IEvestia, which thundered that the time is ripe" for changes in what 1t called Trans reactionary foreign and domestic policy.
 Washington opinion was said to be divided aS to the course the United States should follow in the security council consideration of Iran.
 One school of opinion held that the American position should be limited to the simple demand that Soviet troops quit Tran as was prom ised by Russia.
 The other school believed the troop demand should be coupled with 6 pledge to Russia that once the troops are withdrawn there will be . general consideration of all middle Eastern problems in which Soviet security and natural resource demands will be taken up.
 The second proposed line would, SM effect, acknowledge the Soviet contention that the Iranian dispute primarily hinges upon oil and upon Russian frontier security while at the same time insisting on Russian adherence to treaty obligations.
 The United States through It's UN.O. delegate, Edward V. Stettin- Jus, Jr., formally has requested that Iran be placed at the top of the se- Curity council agenda.
 GeOrgiev Resigns
 A development possibly bearing on she Soviet situation was the sudden resignation of the Bulgarian gov ernment, headed by Premier Kimon Georgiev. Georgiev turned over his powers to three regements who are fN AOnCtdAH q fIRfttpa @FoyarpVao,nt