Letter, Dimitrov to Molotov, 'The Situation in the People's Party of Iran
to Cde. V. M. MOLOTOV
I am sending you:
1. A report, "The situation in the People's Party
of Iran", which
we received from our Iranian correspondent Cde. Malyshev.
2. A report
of the CC of the
People's Party of Iran.
I am also sending this material to Cde. Dekanozov. [signature]
G. DIMITROV 18 March
1944 Attachment:
1.
The situation in the People's
Party
2. A report of the CC of the People's Party of Iran.
[not included]
3. Memos to Dr. RADMANESH, YUSUF ARDEBILI, KHALIL INKILYAB,
and SEYYED ZIAEDDIN. [not included]
[handwritten in the lower left-hand
corner of the title
page: "Reported to
V.
M. Molotov
25 March 1944"]
THE SITUATION IN THE PEOPLE'S
PARTY
After the death
of Suleiman Mirza
it was decided not to elect a Party chairman, and all important issues were to be decided
by a majority of the CC.
It was decided
for now to communicate with
the Soviet representatives through Dr. Radmanesh, and three
CC members will
be selected for
this purpose later.
Party communications with
the Soviet representatives will
be of an absolutely official
nature as occurs
with other democratic parties and leaders.
The merger of the trade unions
. The issue of the unification of the two largest trade union centers
is drawing to a close. Several
meeting have been held between
representatives of both trade union centers. The following principles of the merger
were agreed upon:
1. Recognition of the
political leadership of the People's Party by the trade unions
as the only democratic party of Iran.
2. The governing body of the new united
trade union center
is to be formed of four representatives of the leadership of People's Party
trade unions, three
representatives of the trade unions
led by Yusuf Ardebili, and two representatives directly from the People's Party.
3. Neither Yusuf Ardebili nor Khalil Inkilyab (informational material about
these two person
was sent previously) will be placed in the governing center of the
united trade union
center [SIC].
4. Khalil Inkilyab is beginning an open struggle
verbally and in the press
against the factional
activity of Yusuf
Ardebili, which has led to a weakening of the unity
of the workers. The election
campaign.
The results of the elections in Tehran have been announced. Not one of the candidates from the People's Party was elected in spite of the fact that the most active
campaign of the People's Party was launched
in Tehran. The widely-launched election
campaign of the People's Party bore its own fruits: the ideas of the People's Party were conveyed
to a large number of people, chiefly
the workers and craftsmen of Tehran. The
political influence of the Party
grew considerably as a result of the active election
campaign (the effort
of the government to gain the support
of the People's Party and also the effort to unify workers'
organizations might serve as an example of the above).
A campaign against
the candidates of the People's
Party was waged in many places with every possible dishonest, fraudulent method. For example, a government group
sent its own candidate to Gorgan, where Lesani, the People's Party candidate ran. Soheili (the Premier) declared
that this new candidate was
nominated in [Gorgan] on the recommendation of Soviet representatives.
Shariat-zade, who had given a bribe of 30,000 tumans
to Soheili, was elected in Mazanda[r]an. Shariat-zade's brother was expelled from
Tehran by the government for participating in a fascist organization.
The opening
of the Majlis was postponed to 26 February
1944. The People's
Party will not create a separate group
in the Majlis. It will
try to create
a single group
of all democratically-minded
deputies against
the group of Seyyed Ziaeddin.
The CC has developed a platform of the People's
Party's parliamentary demands.
It especially stresses peasant demands.
I will send the text of the platform arrived
later as soon as it has been finally approved.
Speculation about the new makeup
of the cabinet .
Soheili's cabinet will have to resign with the opening
of the Majlis. They assume
that the new government will be formed
by Qavam-es-Saltane. Qavam is a big landowner
and a reactionary, but his landholdings are in the north, in the province
of Gilan, and therefore he is forced
to support a pro-Soviet policy
in order get the Russians
to have a favorable attitude
toward him. The British are
against Qavam coming
to power; they have Seyyed
Ziaeddin as their
candidate, but their
prospects of pushing through
the latter are weak in view of the unpopularity of Seyyed Zia. Thus in these conditions Qavam is viewed as the lesser
evil and will be supported by our representative in pursuing these aims. It also speaks
in Qavam's favor
that this person
is firm, decisive, and straightforward, and who keeps his promises.
The People's Party
managed to stir up a broad movement
of workers and democratic elements
of the intelligentsia for
the organization of the trial
of Mukhtari, the former chief
of police; Rasekh
and Naruman, former prison
wardens; and Ahmedi,
a former prison
doctor, accused in the murders
of a number of political figures in prison
such as Doctor
Erani, Khan Baba Asad (chief
of the Bakhtiari tribe), and Farukhi (a poet and newspaper editor).
The public demands
the death sentence
for the accused.
I am sending the report of the CC of the People's Party. 25 February 1944
MALYSHEV
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