اتفاقية الجزائر بين العراق و إبران عام 1975

Abstract EN

Iraq's borders with Iran constituted one of the issues that provoked many conflicts in the history of Iraq.

In 1937, when Iraq was under British hegemony, an agreement was signed that considers that a certain point in the Shatt al-Arab other than the bottom line is the maritime border between Iraq and Iran, but the successive governments in Iran rejected this border demarcation and considered it an “imperial creation” and Iran considered the bottom line point in the Shatt al-Arab Which was agreed upon in 1913 between Iran and the Ottomans as the official border, and the point of the bottom line is the point at which the coast isat its steepest slope.

In 1969, Iraq informed the Iranian government that the entire Shatt al-Arab is Iraqi waters, and it did not recognize the idea of the bottom line.

In 1975, for the purpose of quelling the armed conflict of the Kurds, led by Mustafa Barzani, who was supported by the Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Iraq signed the Algiers Agreement with Iran, and the bottom line was agreed upon as a border between the two countries, but Iraq tore up this agreement in 1980 and the first Gulf War began.