Abd al-Muhsin Al-Saadoon, Honorary KCMG

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‎ (1879 – 1929) was an Iraq

Iraq

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i politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq

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 four separate times between 1922 and 1929. A member of the leading clan of the Muntafiq tribal confederation, Al-Saadoon served as an officer in the Ottoman

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 army and as a aide-de-camp to Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II before returning to Iraq and embarking on a career in politics. After World War I

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, He was an outspoken opponent of the British

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 mandate in the country.

During his third term in office, Al-Saadoon negotiated two important treaties: the Second Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1926), ensuring that the Kurd

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-dominated Mosul

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 province would remain part of Iraq (with assurances for the rights of the local Kurdish population); and the Turkey-Iraqi Treaty in which Iraq promised to pay Turkey

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10 percent of its revenues from the Mosul oil fields in return for Turkish recognition of Iraqi control of the area.

Death

During his fourth term in office, Al-Saadoon died; he was alleged to have committed suicide.