الصراع السياسي بين الشيخ محمد تقي الشيرازي وبريطانيا قبل ثورة عام ١٩٢٠ في العراق

الملخص EN

Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi followed political means in opposing the British occupation of Iraq before the 1920 revolution both internally and externally.

to spread national awareness and opened a number of branches for it in many parts of the country and included many national figures.

the association's orientations were of a national nature and called for the independence of Iraq.

as for the external level sheikh Shirazi worked to address the major countries at that time especially the states the united states of America and he sent a letter to American president Woodrow Wilson in which he reminded him of the principle of self-determination that the president put forward for the peoples who emerged from the ottoman colonialism but Britain tried to lure sheikh Shirazi to its side by means of carrot and intimidation by raising sectarian and national issues but it failed.

so it moved to the method of intimidation when he arrested several leaders of the Islamic national assembly on august 2.

1919 and they were exiled to India Sheikh Shirazi threatened the British they were forced to immigrate to Iran and issue a fatwa to wage jihad against them which eventually forced them to release them and allow them to return to their country in December 1919.