His Holiness's trade with the price of currency!

On the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah

His Highness Ahmad Shah, I said that it was decided that the Kazakh army of Iran would be given to Iranian officers in the future and that there would be no foreign officers in the organization. That's why British military officials are currently looking at the list of suitable Iranian officers to put them all at the head of various military units and officials. But I also asked His Majesty to note that we (the British) will no longer allow the shedding of the kind that was common during the power of Russian officers in the Cossack Army of Iran.

In the course of this conversation, as I looked at the face of this fat, fat young man in that gray suit, who seemed to be twisting from the intensity of my discomfort after hearing my explicit, skinny words, I thought of the will of God that he had put such a helpless and helpless creature at the head of such a dangerous Iranian monarchy?

His Majesty repeatedly changed the subject in a completely unconscious way and said that due to the lack of sufficient Gendarmerie, the situation of the country's roads is extremely bad; only the roads under the supervision of the British authorities are safe and caravans can pass through them with leisure.

 Now they are facing a difficult situation and hope that I (Commander norperforth) will be able to solve the problem that has happened to them. The summary of His Majesty's forms was: most of them apparently had money in them that they wanted to transfer to their bank accounts in Mumbai. But the only way to do this, as they had researched and informed, was to send their cash to Baghdad using British army trucks and make subsequent arrangements ( to transfer funds to Mumbai) from there!

After the conclusion of the meluk statements, I was amazed for a while what His Majesty meant and what service he had made me in such a matter, because in the matter of transferring money from Iran to abroad, they logically should go to the Royal Bank of Britain in Tehran, not me commander norperforth...But the veil was gradually lifted from the point of view and the Malik's intention was revealed. It turns out that His Majesty has a large amount of silver money in the form of Toman coins (which is very similar to the French five - Frankish coins), the total price of which, in that large one, is about one million sterling lira.

I was completely surprised to hear your majesty's explanation, because I couldn't estimate exactly how much the overall weight of such a large sum would be. But with a thumbnail, it was speculated that to carry the amount that His Majesty wanted to send to Baghdad in silver coins, several large trucks and a number of military guards would be needed. It was here that suddenly the greatness of the crime that His Majesty wanted to infect us became clear to me:

On that date, we in all the countries of the Middle East and Asia regularly stated in press columns that we needed the country's currency (Silver Coin) to pay for the maintenance of our various military forces in Iran, because the Iranians were not yet used to using banknotes at that date and paper money was not printed in Iran. The news that we are buyers of Iranian silver coins had undoubtedly reached India, which had created a free market for coins in Delhi, Mumbai and Karachi. Thus, His Majesty dreamed of exporting his large coins to a point (i.e. to Mumbai) with the help of British military officials in Iran, using British army trucks, where he knew that the price of his free market was much higher than the official price of Tehran!

Memoirs of general Ironside (English general and the main designer of the 1299 coup in Iran) page 151 of the English text

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