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| Iran's Quds Force Commander Gen Qaani recently visited Iraq to talk with the Resistance and the ruling Coordination Framework |
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has set September 30 as the date for the pro-Iran Resistance factions to disarm. Tehran is attempting to come up with ways to maintain its allies while not causing a conflict with Baghdad.
1921 Referendum finished that picked Faisal as king British fixed results
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
1918 UK Foreign Min Balfour said one war aim was to secure agreement over Mesopotamia to
secure oil there
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1919 Churchill wrote PM Lloyd George saying were too many troops in Mesopotamia that
could crush its finances
(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings On Iraq review U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq)
1918 UK Foreign Sec Balfour War in Mesopotamia should be justified by securing water that would
also give it control of oil Balfour’s statement prompted PM Lloyd George to call for UK to seize Ottoman Mosul province
(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq)
1920 Treaty of Sevres started break-up of Ottoman Empire after WW I Ceded Mesopotamia to UK
Included call for Kurdish state Full protection for Assyrians Turkey rejected treaty and claimed Mosul province citing Madrid armistice
(Musings On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)
1914 US consulate report Martial law declared in Baghdad Vilayet would provide 15,000
recruits for war Ottomans called on all Muslims to serve
Iran's Quds Force Commander Gen Qaani recently visited Iraq to talk with the Resistance and the ruling Coordination Framework ...
