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Diplomatic Relations

Iraq
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	Location:
	Capital: Baghdad
	Official Language: Arabic, Kurdish
	Government: Developing parliamentary republic
	Head of State: (leave this blank for players)
	Formation: October 1, 1919
	Population: 29,267,000 (2007)
	Currency: Iraqi dinar (IQD)
	¨Human Rights Record¨ Wikipedia article
	¨Territorial Disputes¨ The Shatt Al-Arab is contested between Iran and Iraq, another grey area is the Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone
	¨Ongoing Conflicts¨ The nation is currently hosting troops from several nations in order to help fight against the ethnic and religious insurgencies within the nation.

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Summary

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic: جمهورية العراق, Jumhūrīyat Al-Irāq, Kurdish: كۆماری ﮦێراق Komarê Iraq), is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, and Iran to the east. It has a very narrow section of coastline measuring 58 km (35 miles) at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. There are two major flowing rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates. These provide Iraq with agriculturally capable land and contrast with the desert landscape that covers most of Western Asia. The capital city, Baghdad, is in the centre-east.

Since an invasion in 2003, a multinational coalition of forces, mainly American and British, has occupied Iraq. The invasion has had wide-reaching consequences: increased civil violence, establishment of a parliamentary democracy, the removal and execution of former authoritarian President Saddam Hussein, official recognition and widespread political participation of Iraq's Kurdish minority and Shi'ite Arab majority, significant economic growth, building of new infrastructure, and use of the country's huge reserves of oil. In 2008 the Failed States Index, produced by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, Iraq was the world's fifth most unstable country, after Sudan, and the United States in 2007 referred to it in court proceedings as "an active theater of combat." Iraq is developing a parliamentary democracy composed of 18 governorates (known as muhafadhat).

Brief History

Iraq's rich history dates back to ancient Mesopotamia. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is identified as the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of writing. Throughout its long history, Iraq has served as the capital of the Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Parthian, Sassanid and Abbasid empires, and as a province of the Achaemenid, Macedonian, Rashidun, Umayyad, Mongol, Ottoman and British empires.

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+|¨Human Rights Record¨ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_post-invasion_Iraq Wikipedia article]
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+|¨Territorial Disputes¨ The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatt_Al-Arab Shatt Al-Arab] is contested between Iran and Iraq, another grey area is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-Iraqi_neutral_zone Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone]
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+Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic: جمهورية العراق, Jumhūrīyat Al-Irāq, Kurdish: كۆماری ﮦێراق Komarê Iraq), is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, and Iran to the east. It has a very narrow section of coastline measuring 58 km (35 miles) at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. There are two major flowing rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates. These provide Iraq with agriculturally capable land and contrast with the desert landscape that covers most of Western Asia. The capital city, Baghdad, is in the centre-east.
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+Since an invasion in 2003, a multinational coalition of forces, mainly American and British, has occupied Iraq. The invasion has had wide-reaching consequences: increased civil violence, establishment of a parliamentary democracy, the removal and execution of former authoritarian President Saddam Hussein, official recognition and widespread political participation of Iraq's Kurdish minority and Shi'ite Arab majority, significant economic growth, building of new infrastructure, and use of the country's huge reserves of oil. In 2008 the Failed States Index, produced by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, Iraq was the world's fifth most unstable country, after Sudan, and the United States in 2007 referred to it in court proceedings as "an active theater of combat." Iraq is developing a parliamentary democracy composed of 18 governorates (known as muhafadhat).
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+ Iraq's rich history dates back to ancient Mesopotamia. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is identified as the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of writing. Throughout its long history, Iraq has served as the capital of the Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Parthian, Sassanid and Abbasid empires, and as a province of the Achaemenid, Macedonian, Rashidun, Umayyad, Mongol, Ottoman and British empires.
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+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq Iraq on Wikipedia]
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+*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/791014.stm Iraq on the BBC]
+*[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iz.html Iraq on the CIA world factbook]
+*[http://www.cpa-iraq.org/ Homepage of the Iraqi government]

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Contents

Diplomatic Relations

Summary

Brief History

Diplomatic Messages

Resources