Global Courant 2023-05-24 18:19:29
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The life and death of a man who served as Iraqi prime minister 14 times between 1930 and 1958.
Nuri al-Said served as prime minister of Iraq 14 times between 1930 and 1958.
Self-made, ambitious and successful, he forged strategic alliances with Iraqi royalty and, most importantly, Britain.
In signing the 1930 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty, he negotiated a deal that gave Britain control of much of Iraq’s resources even after independence; his critics believed this brought him too close to the British Axis.
His many terms as prime minister were interrupted by military coups, royal deaths, political assassinations and forced exile. In the end, Nuri al-Said died brutally at the hands of protesters during the 1958 coup in Iraq.
Nuri al-Said: Iraq’s power broker and 14 times
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