US Expects Action From Iraq Against Pro-Iran Resistance Not Words

  

The Trump administration is keeping up the pressure upon the Iraqi elite to disband the Resistance and curtail Iranian influence. That’s been seen in new statements and sanctions.

This Day In Iraqi History - May 11 2nd time Sec Def Rumsfeld claimed roughly 10,000 troops could invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam

 

1925 UK Colonial Secretary wrote Arab elites knew Iraq was being held together by British

This Day In Iraqi History - May 10 Army forced PM Talib to resign Pres Arif became PM

 

1920 Nationalist Haras al-Istiqlal decided to increase campaign for independence in

Baghdad Agreed on joint Sunni-Shiite events during annual religious ceremonies

This Day In Iraqi History - May 9 German and Italian planes started landing in Iraq for Anglo-Iraq War

 

1919 UK approved Iraq political officer Wilson’s plan for mandate in Iraq run by a high

commissioner Foreign Office told Wilson to treat Mosul as an Arab province of Iraq Meant Mosul would be included in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country)

(Musings On Iraq review U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq)

Review Edited by Farhang Rajaee, The Iran-Iraq War, The Politics of Aggression, University Press of Florida, 1993

  

The Iran-Iraq War, The Politics of Aggression was the result of a conference held in Tehran in the summer of 1988. It’s a collection of papers that were presented. Reading an anthology is always risky because the quality of writing and topics will often shift from chapter to chapter. That’s especially true for this one. The main benefit of the book is that most but not all of the writers are Iranian giving their perspective of the war.

This Day In Iraqi History - May 8 Def Sec Rumsfeld gave CPA head Bremer draft of DeBaathification order Pentagon would later deny it wrote order

 

1927 Iraqi cabinet resolution said Assyrians would be settled in the country

(Musings On Iraq review Assyrians in Modern Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)

This Day In Iraqi History - May 7 Fmr intelligence head Kazemi became interim PM

 

1918 British took Kirkuk based on false idea that it would stop Germans from organizing Persians

to attack India British would later leave Kirkuk Abandoned Kurds that flocked to British to oppose Turks

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)