ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with a background of the Kurdish Issue from WWI to late 1963, with a focus from 1958. It examines how the Iraqi Kurds tried in vain in 1965 to secure the backing of the US and aims to identify a significant link between Britain’s withdrawal from the Gulf and the position of the Iraqi Kurds. The book focuses on to scrutinise how, from 1972, Barzani responded to the Soviet backing of the Ba'athists in Baghdad. It shows how the Kurdish War was reignited from August 1974 by the Iraq army’s total assault on Kurdistan Democratic Party-held areas of Iraqi Kurdistan. The book presents multi-sourced evidence to challenge and dismiss suggestions that the Shah had no choice but to betray the Kurds.
