British policy towards Iraq from 1948 - 1953

Abstract

After the end of World War II, Britain wanted to maintain its influence in Iraq, but the development of leftist parties in Iraq and the expansion of their base among the educated youth class, represented by college and higher institute students, and the penetration of the Communist Party among the general class, aroused Britain’s anger at the expansion of the base of those parties with The leftist party that sees the Soviet Union as a model and a savior for it. Britain felt that its conflict with the Soviet Union had begun in Iraq. Britain wanted to attack those parties that glorified the Soviet experience in Iraq. Britain’s decision was to interfere in the Iraqi government’s policy on internal, external, and national issues And nationalism by directing the policy of the Iraqi government. The British ambassador instructed the government to use a policy of intimidation against parties opposing British policy, arresting their leaders in prisons, closing their press, and closing those parties. With all these strict measures, the influence supporting the Soviet Union increased. The intervention of the British ambassador in Iraq was You tried to form governments in order to restrain the revolting masses, but these measures were of no use. Britain sensed the seriousness of its position in Iraq