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)
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.
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)
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)
Iraq’s main oil export route through the Strait of Hormuz remains closed due to the U.S.-Iran conflict. This is having a deleterious effect upon Iraq’s petroleum industry and economy.
1920 UK High Commissioner Wilson statement Said was aware of Kurdish anxiety about joining
Iraq Said Kurdistan connected to Iraq Would be Kurdish districts in Mosul province Would have representatives in assembly Sulaymaniya would be a subprovince
Pro-Iran Resistance attacks upon the Gulf States and Jordan during and after the Iran War have strained relations between Iraq and its neighbors. Before Baghdad was courting them for investment, but now that’s in jeopardy.
1920 British mandate announced in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country)
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review Dictatorship, Imperialism & Chaos, Iraq since 1989)
(Musings On Iraq review An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review A Short History of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
The Iran War is having far reaching affects upon Iraq. The latest is a looming electricity crisis. This is caused by a cut in Iranian natural gas exports to Baghdad as well as a decline in its own gas production.
1918 Najaf revolt ended after rebels gave up to UK after 2 month blockade Ended Zuqurt
and Shumurt control of city
1913 US consulate in Baghdad reported Ottomans ordered documents to be published in
Arabic and Turkish in Baghdad vilayet as concession to Arab demands
1854 Riot in Mosul versus Ottoman reforms Attacked Christians and Jews for businesses they ran
and control of taxes that caused resentment
(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
I was quoted in this article by Paul Iddon “Iraq’s western pipeline gambit faces a wall of risk amid export crisis” in Amwaj Media.
For a full list of Musings On #Iraq’s citations look here.
Tim Trevan was a British expert in weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In 1992 he joined the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspectors in Iraq. His Saddam’s Secrets is one of the better books on the subject. He goes into great detail about all of the jobs the inspectors carried out but focuses upon the biological weapons program which Iraq tried to hide. It’s the coverage of each inspection team that went to Iraq that reveals how Baghdad lied about its program until UNSCOM ended in 1998.
1919 War Min Churchill wrote PM George that British army was overstretched with new
additions like Mesopotamia
(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 Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
The ruling Coordination Framework surprised everyone by nominating businessman Ali al-Zaidi to be the next prime minister.
1915 Ottoman mayor murdered in Najaf for trying to draft men for war and taking money
from shrines
1916 Gen Townshend surrendered at Kut 13,309 soldiers and followers taken prisoner
7,000 died in captivity British lost 33,000 casualties One of largest defeats for UK in WWI
On April 8 the ceasefire went into effect between the U.S. and Iran. Hostilities were supposed to stop in Iraq as well as the Resistance announced a two week halt to operations but they have not. Iranian Kurdish groups have been attacked again and again and most recently a Kuwait border post was hit by an Iraqi drone.
I was cite din this article by Paul Iddon in the New Arab “Dollar blockade: Will US pressure on Iraq’s militias backfire?”
For a full listing of Musings On Iraq’s citations look here.
The Trump administration dramatically increased the pressure upon Iraq to curtail Iranian influence in the country.
1916 UK offered Ottomans all the artillery and 1 mil pounds in return for letting British forces
leave Kut UK forces had been under siege in Kut since Dec Ottomans refused offer
1916 Gen Townshend cmdr at Kut wrote Turks about surrendering Townshend told to offer
money to allow his troops to go Turks wanted unconditional surrender
1920 San Remo Agreement created British Mandate in Iraq France agreed to give up Mosul vilayet
in return for oil concessions in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country)
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review Dictatorship, Imperialism & Chaos, Iraq since 1989)
(Musings On Iraq review An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
(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 When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
Nemir Kirdar was born in Iraq but left in 1969 due to the Baathist dictatorship. He went into business and became a multi-millionaire running his own investment firm. His book Saving Iraq, Rebuilding A Broken Nation represents everything that was wrong with Iraqi exiles. They had no idea what happened in Iraq since they left and valorized the past as an idyllic period that could be recreated in the present.
1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed Last attempt to relieve forces there
1915 UK Gen Townshend ordered by Mesopotamia cmdr Gen Nixon to take Qurna and Amara
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1915 Lord Curzon asked why British should promise Basra and Baghdad vilayets to Arabs if they
were fighting on Ottoman side
1920 US got copy of San Remo agreement that divided Iraqi oil between UK and France US Amb to UK Davis sent message to...
