Prime Minister designate Ali al-Zaidi is coming under increasing pressure from both the United States and Iran over the direction of his cabinet. The two powers are diametrically opposed to each other leading to a deadlock in talks over forming the next government.
1915 British forces moved north to try to encircle Ottoman forces in Qurna
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1920 US got copy of San Remo agreement that divided Iraqi oil between UK and France US Amb
to UK Davis sent message to UK Foreign Sec Lord Curzon Said end of WWI countries agreed there would be equal treatment in development ex-Turkish territories Complained UK controlled Iraqi oil
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
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.
1925 UK Colonial Secretary wrote Arab elites knew Iraq was being held together by British
1920 Nationalist Haras al-Istiqlal decided to increase campaign for independence in
Baghdad Agreed on joint Sunni-Shiite events during annual religious ceremonies
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)
Prime Minister designate Ali al-Zaidi is coming under increasing pressure from both the United States and Iran over the di...
