Algerian Revolution, Iraqi Council of Representatives, Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Burhan Al-Deen Bash, Iraqi government

Abstract

Despite that the Royal Era in Iraq was not meant to continue until the end of the Algerian Revolution (1962), it was contemporary with its developments since its start in 1954 until the royal regime in Iraq was toppled by the 14th of July Revolution, 1958. Here, many questions may rise: what were the reflections of the Algerian Revolution in Iraq Foreign Policy in that period? How Iraq reacted to its events, positively or negatively? What was the size of the support given by the Iraqi government and parliament? Answers for these questions may be find in we follow the positions of the then Prime Minister, some members of parliament, and the foreign affairs minister, Burhan Al-Deen Bash A’yan, who  witnessed the period 1954-1958, the first half of the Revolution. Those positions represent all of Iraq’s positions towards the Algerian Revolution. Such positions reflected the desire of the Iraqi Government to champion Algeria’s liberation cause through diplomatic support and some material and military aid, which reflected in turn the Iraqi public opinion, as the Iraqi people sympathized with North African Arab countries striving to obtain independence from France