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Article Name :
The role of the great powers in formation of Iraq
Author Name :
MAHTAB JAFARI, MOHSEN ZAMANI
Publisher :
Bridge Center
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Abstract :
Iraq’s idea for a separated state was initiatives that Britain had found the strategic importance of Mesopotamia. Prior to the creation of a state –Arabic Iraq, Baghdad, Basra and Mosul were provinces of the Ottoman Empire reigned, and there was not any request from native people to create Iraq government. Framing of Iraq’s borders after world war 1 , were in the interests of the colonial power of the Britain, and regardless of the wishes of the people from the various ethnic groups (Kurdish, Arabs, Turkomans Assyrians) that the negligence caused insecurity both inside and outside the country `s borders and created many problems in the region. The method used in this research is descriptive and analytic, this means that in addition to the data of occurrence of the phenomenon has been well described and analyzed. The question which was examined in this study is that framing of Iraq by Britain has had what impact on developments of Iraq and the Middle East. Indeed, Iraq has been made by Britain. Iraq situation was a strategic situation for Britain, because to be located on the trade route toward India and later because to obtain oil interests in Middle East. Then, because of various wars in the history of Iraq, the country has become a failed state, and certainly should be considered as one of the greatest historical mistakes.
Keywords :
great powers, colonialism, treaties and agreements, borders, Iraq
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