Nuri al-Said
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Nuri al-Said Al-Qaraghuli Al-Zubaidi was an Iraqi politician and statesman who served eight terms as Prime Minister of Iraq. He served in various key cabinet and governmental positions in Iraq during
Nuri al-Said in 1957
Emir Faisal's delegation at the Palace of Versailles during the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920). Nuri is positioned second from the left. Left to right: Rustam Haidar, Nuri al-Said, Prince Faisal, Captain Rosario Pisani (behind Faisal), Colonel T. E. Lawrence, unnamed slave of Prince Faisal, Captain Tahsin Kadry.
Corpse of Nuri (right), and regent Abd al-Ilah (left) lynched by the crowds.
Ghazi of Iraq
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Ghazi ibn Faisal was King of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, and was the only son of Faisal I. He died in a car accident
Nuri al-Said
…Minister and replaced him with Naji Shawkat, which curbed Nuri's influence somewhat; after the death of Faisal the following year and the accession of Ghazi, his access to the palace decreased. Further impeding his influence was the rise of Yasin al-Hashimi, who would become prime minister for the first…
Formal portrait, c. 1933–1939
The then Crown Prince Ghazi of Iraq in 1927 (centre of the front row)
King Ghazi postage from 1949
King Ghazi and Emir Saud on horses