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Nouri

More than five hours later, three planes slowly landed at Baghdad Capital Airport under the cover of 24 of Germany's latest TA152 fighter jets.

On the Iraqi side, because the previous king, Ghazi ibn Faisal, who was only 27 years old, died in a car accident while driving a Buick sports car on April 4, his son Faisal II took over the throne. Jesus II was born in 1935, only four years old.

Therefore, the Iraqi government is not responsible for picking up the plane, but the regent Abdul Illah.

And Abdul Illah himself has no ability, the reason why he can become the regent is all because he has the support of Nuri Yi Said behind him.

Nuri Ysaid was born in Baghdad in 1888. He participated in the Arab uprising led by Hussein Ibn Ali in Hejaz in 1916. He served as a staff officer and fought in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria against the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

After France expelled Faisal from the Syrian throne in 1920, Nouri accompanied Faisal to Iraq.

In 1922 he became the first supreme commander of the Iraqi National Police, a position he used to put his cronies in important positions in the police system to control the entire police system. He repeated this tactic in his later posts, which became the basis for his later acquisition of enormous political power.

In 1929, Faisal proposed to appoint Nouri as prime minister of Iraq, but the British opposed it (Iraq became a British "mandate" in 1920), and it was not until 1930 that Faisal finally persuaded the British that Nouri. First time serving as Prime Minister of Iraq.

As with other appointments, he was quick to appoint his supporters as government officials, but this weakened the king's own foundation in government, and the relationship between the two who had been very close began to break down.

In 1930, Nouri signed the Anglo-Iranian Treaty, a 25-year alliance treaty that was opposed by many, including King Faisal, because it effectively cemented British rights.

In October 1932, the unbearable Faisal dismissed Nouri as prime minister, let him transfer to the representative of the League of Nations, and appointed Naji Shekar to take over as prime minister, which reduced Nouri's influence. But nonetheless, Nouri was still very influential in the army, and he was trusted by the British.

When the Hicomet Revolution broke out in 1936, Nouri, who was still foreign minister, fled to the British embassy to seek political asylum. The British also gave Nouri very much and immediately transferred him to Egypt, thus avoiding the disaster of death.

He returned to Baghdad in August 1937 and began plotting a return to power, but his ties to the military made the then Prime Minister Jameel Midfield very uneasy, and Midfield approached the British, telling them the best In order to get Nouri abroad, the British side, for some reasons, persuaded Nouri to let him serve as the Iraqi ambassador to the United Kingdom.

But Nouri was a hero, and he was unwilling to settle down, so in October 1938, Nouri returned to Baghdad and served as Minister of the Interior.

In order to return to the center of power, Nouri persuaded his friends in the army to have the army support him in overthrowing Midfield's government.

On December 24, 1938, the Iraqi army launched a military mutiny, and Nouri became prime minister again.

Nuri's ignorance of the king naturally made the young Ghazi ibn Faisal (the previous king, the old Faisal, died in September 1933) quite unhappy. , so he confronted Nouri in every way, while constantly strengthening his influence in the army.

Ghazi's approach of drawing the army seriously threatened Nouri, making him vigilant and trying to isolate the king, elevating the status of Ghazi's brother, Prince Zeid, to make him a candidate for the heir to the throne.

At the same time, Ghazi's increasingly nationalist speeches on his private radio also made the British very dissatisfied, so the British side also secretly supported Nouri's approach.

In January 1939, Ghazi appointed Rashid Ali Ghelani, a senior officer in the army who supported him, as the head of the Conclave, which further angered Nouri. In March of the same year, Nouri took action against his opponent – ​​he claimed to have uncovered a plot to murder Ghazi and used it as a pretext to purge army officers.

In April of the same year, King Ghazi I died suddenly in a car accident, which made many people suspect that Nouri had done a trick in it. Even at Ghazi's funeral, many people directly chanted: "Nuri, you will help Ghazi. blood is responsible."

Regardless of whether Ghazi really died at the hands of Nouri, for Nouri, it was the biggest trouble missing.

After the four-year-old Fersa II ascended the throne, in order to stabilize his position, Nouri elected Abdul Illah, who has no ability but listened to his own words, as the regent, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the whole of Iraq.

But he never imagined that as the European side became more and more fierce, the United Kingdom gradually began to take care of Iraq flawlessly, which made a pawn buried by Ghazi during his lifetime - Rashid Ali Ghailani, the leader of the Royal Council - Action started.

Like Ghazi, Rashid believes in nationalism and wants to save his own country from the British and out of the control of other countries. However, because the United Kingdom has been keeping an eye on Iraq's oil resources, he has no chance to implement his ideals and has to choose to wait for the opportunity.

And now the opportunity has finally come. Britain's attention is firmly drawn to Western Europe by Germany's millions of troops, and the home fleet has been hit hard by German naval aviation in the previous battle of New Jutland. Having to assemble the mighty Mediterranean Fleet to the North Sea against the German High Seas Fleet gave Iraq an unprecedented environment!

As a result, Rashid changed his previous forbearance attitude and immediately launched the slogan "Iraq is Iraq for Iraqis, and Iraqi oil is Iraqi oil for Iraqis", and used his relationship in the military to establish an anti-British group. , an officer corps named "Golden Phalanx".

The Iraqi branch of the German Gestapo quickly sensed this opportunity, and they immediately sent someone to contact Rashid, explaining Germany's support for the Iraqi independence movement and their willingness to provide limited arms assistance.

Rashid was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately expressed his willingness to help German friends fight against the "evil European forces" as long as Iraq successfully got rid of the British control.

The two sides who reached a consensus quickly finalized a specific action plan, and the first batch of German arms assistance - 15,000 G41 automatic rifles and more than 600 MG42 general-purpose machine guns and their ammunition - was soon shipped by Italian transport ships. Arrived in neutral Turkey, and then bypassed Syria under French rule through Turkey, and successfully sent them to Iraqi Rashid.

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