[PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION FROM PERSIAN]

[Translator’s notes appear in square brackets]

[Personal information has been redacted.]

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Ministry of the Interior

Office of the Governor General of the Third Province

Date: 15 Esfand 1322 [6 March 1944]

Number 4186

Attachment: 1 [page]

Confidential

Police Force, Third Province

Pursuant to [letter] number 4170 – dated 13 Esfand 1322 [4 March 1944] -- regarding the activities of Sheikh Mohsen Vaez, you are hereby [once again] ordered to demand an urgent investigation of these recent events, as you had been directed previously to do, to scrutinise the matter and the history of the activities of the above-mentioned individual, who incited the crowd to riot; [we are] awaiting your report so that instructions can be issued for an appropriate course of action.

If this person has previously been investigated, please provide the details.

Deputy Governor General of the Third Province, Mobasser Roushani

A transcript of the above, with the transcription of the report from Colonel Amir Parviz, Commander of the Gendarmerie Regiment of Tabriz, pursuant to the letter number 4171 – dated 13 Esfand 1322 [4 March 1944] is hereby presented to the Ministry of Interior, for its information.

Deputy Governor General of the Third Province, Mobasser Roushani, [Signed: Mobasser Roushani]

[Stamped: Registered with Ministry of the Interior, Number: 238, Date: 10 Farvardin 1323 (2 April 1944)]

[Stamped: Ministry of the Interior, Political division, Number: 351, Date: 19 Farvardin 1323 (8 April 1944)]

[Handwritten Note 1:] To be presented [to Governor General]

[Handwritten Note 2:] Background: 12/1/ [1323] [4 April 1944]

[Handwritten Note 3:] Background information is recorded in the Political Division records. 12 Farvardin 1323 [4 April 1944]

[Handwritten Note 4:] Original to be sent to the Political Division.

[Handwritten Note 5:] To be filed.