عبد السلام عارف: رؤية مستقبلية في مسار العلاقات العراقية-الإيرانية (1963-1966)‎

Abstract EN

Both Iraq and Iran occupies a distinct geographical position through their global and regional location, and they are linked by long borders, most of them are wild, not separated by long mountainous or watery natural obstacles, and many rivers that originate from Iranian lands and flow into the land of Iraq because of the decline of Iranian lands in the direction of the south and the east of Iraq, which is why it had economic and political importance, as well as their participation in the Shatt al-Arab waterway was important.

it was one of the causes of the border conflict between them, due to its distinctive location in the high Arabian gulf, and it is one of the waterways that enter Iraqi territory along the Iranian border down to north of the Iraqi city of Basra.

and this competition continued until the eighteenth century, and although border tensions and rivalries continued in the nineteenth century, the situation became more stable under the British occupier, who sent joint survey teams to draw the borders that (the borders) have always witnessed modification paths more than once.