Salih Jabr

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Salih Jabr

Salih Jabr ( Arabic صالح جبر, DMG Ṣāliḥ Ǧabr , * 1896 ; † 1957 ) was an Iraqi politician and the country's 16th  Prime Minister . He was the first Shiite Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Iraq .

Life

In the 1930s and 1940s Salih Jabr was successively minister of justice, education, foreign affairs, interior and finance. In 1947 he was the Iraqi ambassador to the USA. He was Prime Minister from March 29, 1947 to January 27, 1948. He was the first Shiite in this office.

During his reign he was repeatedly attacked by younger liberal and nationalist politicians for having massively suppressed the anti-British opposition during his tenure as Interior Minister in World War II . Salih Jabr negotiated the renewal of the Anglo-Iraqi treaty of 1930 with the British , which he signed in 1948 without consulting the nationalist Iraqi leaders. The revised treaty, however, left essential British reservation rights from the 1930 treaty unchanged and stipulated some of them for 25 years until 1973. This led to the anti -British Al-Wathbah uprising of the impoverished population of the suburbs of Baghdad and the students, which was bloodily suppressed on January 27. There were 300 to 400 deaths. Salih Jabr had to revoke the contract, resign and fled to England.

family

Salih Jabr had two sons. His older son Sa'ad Saleh Jabr (* around 1933) left Iraq in 1968 after the Ba'ath Party seized power and worked in exile in London, where hundreds of thousands of Iraqis live, for Western European companies and the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein . He edited Al Tayar magazine from 1984 until the 2003 invasion of Iraq and returned to Iraq in 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beth K. Dougherty, Edmund A. Ghareeb: Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarscrow Press, 2013, pp. 687-694.
  2. ^ List of Iraqi heads of state and government
  3. ↑ Elie Kedourie: Anti-Shiism in Iraq under the Monarchy. In: Middle Eastern Studies , Vol. 24, No. 2, April 1988, pp. 249-253.
  4. ↑ Sanjay Suri: IRAQ: Another Son Rises in the West . ipsnews.net, January 16, 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Jabr, Salih
ALTERNATIVE NAMES سيد صالح جبر
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
DATE OF DEATH 1957