pictory: Shah of Iran Greets Crown Prince of Iraq (1949)

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pictory: Shah of Iran Greets Crown Prince of Iraq (1949)
by Darius Kadivar
07-Nov-2008
 

Shah of Iran Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlavi (Left) greets Prince Regent of Iraq, Crown Prince Abd Al-Illah (Right) , at Mehrabad Airport. Iran and Iraq have pledged to a Mutual Aid Treaty for the maintenance of Peace between the two countries. Tehran, Iran  (circa 1949). A son of King Ali ibn Hussein of Hejaz, who was the elder brother of King Faisal I of Iraq, he assumed power upon Ghazi's death in an automobile accident. He was deposed briefly by former prime minister Rashid Ali al-Kaylani, who led a pro-German coup during World War II but was restored after the United Kingdom invaded the country in May 1941.

'Abd al-Ilah stepped down in 1953, when Faisal came of age, but he continued to be a close adviser of the young king, and an advocate of a pro-Western foreign policy. He was killed, along with most of the royal family, on July 14, 1958, in a coup d'état led by Colonel Abdul Karim Qassim that brought an end to the Iraqi monarchy. His body was trailed on al Rashid street and was cut into pieces.

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