Soviet-Iraqi relations between 1945 and 1991

Abstract

Iraqi-Soviet relations provide a model for the two superpower rivalries during the Cold War. Through the presentation of these relations, it shows the factors that contributed to the Soviet-Iraqi rapprochement and examines the reasons that made the Soviet Union seek to include Iraq in the list of its allies in the socialist camp in keeping it away from the capitalist camp that Iraq joined after World War II and until the revolution of July 23, 1958, The latter led to the abolition of the pro-British monarchy and its American ally, and the establishment of a new regime marked by rapprochement with the Soviet Union.

The Soviet-Iraqi relations passed through three main stages, the first of which took the character of apathy and caution, while the second of them was characterized by rapprochement and friendship, and the third returned to take the character of apathy and reached its end with the entry of 1991, i.e. the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.