Keywords: Greater Iraq.png Accuracy Inaccurate-map-disputed irredentist claims to the Arab-populated province of Khuzestan in Iran Kuwait and a small territory in Saudi Arabia formerly part of the Saudi “Kuwaiti neutral zone as parts of Iraq Miller Robert S America's Disposable Soldiers The Real Truth Behind Gulf War Illness Victoria British Columbia Canada Hikma Books 2002 Pp 260 After gaining independence in 1932 the Iraqi government immediately declared that Kuwait was rightfully a territory of Iraq as it had been part of an Iraqi territory until the British creation of Kuwait after World War I and thus stated that Kuwait was a British imperialist invention Duiker William J; Spielvogel Jackson J World History From 1500 5th edition Belmont California USA Thomson Wadsworth 2007 Pp 839 Iraqi and pan-Arab nationalists during World War II promoted merging the Vichy French mandates of Lebanon and Syria along with the British mandate in Palestine and Transjordan together with Iraq into a single state Louis William Roger The British Empire in the Middle East 1945-1951 Arab Nationalism the United States and Postwar Imperialism New York New York USA Oxford University Press Pp 313 own R-41 2010-05-17 Maps of fictional situations Greater Iraq |