 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Musi waApril 13, 1966, Mutungamiri Abdul Salam Arif akafa mutsaona yeherikoputa uye akatsiviwa nemukoma wake, General Abdul Rahman Arif. Pashure porufu urwu rusingatarisirwi, hurumende yeIraq yakatanga nhamburiko yokupedzisira yokukurira vaKurd. Mushandirapamwe uyu wakakundikana muna Chivabvu 1966, apo mauto aBarzani akakunda mauto eIraq muhondo yeGomo reHandrin, padyo neRawanduz. Zvichitevera Hondo Yemazuva matanhatu ya1967, Bato reBaath rakanzwa rakasimba zvakakwana kuti ritorezve simba muna 1968. Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr akava mutungamiri uye sachigaro weRevolutionary Command Council RCC. Hurumende yeBaath yakatanga chirongwa chokugumisa kumukira kwevaKurd, uko kwakamira muna 1969. Ikoku kunogona kupiwa rutivi kurwisana kwesimba kwomukati muBaghdad uyewo kunetsekana neIran. Uyezve, Soviet Union yakamanikidza vaIraq kuti vawirirane naBarzani. Hondo yacho yakaguma nevanhu vanopfuura 100 000 vakafa, uye vapanduki vechiKurd nehurumende yeIraq havana kubudirira. 