The Political Relations between Iran and Iraq from 1337 to 1347(1958 to 1968)

Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War and the formation of an independent country called Iraq in the western neighborhood of Iran, regulating the relations between the two countries has been one of the serious challenges of Iran's foreign policy, and territorial and border disputes, along with religious and ethnic issues, have always threatened the relations between the two countries. These conflicts have intensified or decreased in different periods. In this research, it has been tried to investigate the relationship between the two countries in a ten-year period with a descriptive-analytical method according to the library documents and newspapers review. During Qasim's rule in Iraq, with the emergence of extreme nationalism and the intention to expand relations with the Soviet Union, in addition to the border disputes and its expansion to the Khuzestan region, ideological issues also added to the disputes. Also, due to the presence of Kurds on both sides of the border and the beginning of the Kurdish movement in Iraq, another issue had added to the conflicts between the two countries. With the moderate Arif regime gained power in Iraq, the tension in the relations between the two countries decreased to some extent.