 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakati pa1958 na1990, ukama hweSoviet neIraq hwakanga hwakasimba zvikuru. Soviet Union yakatanga hukama hwehukama neHumambo hweIraq musi wa9 Gunyana 1944. Hurumende yaMambo Faisal II yakanga ichirwisana nechiKomonisiti uye yakangoita hukama neMoscow nemhaka yokudaira kwayo United Kingdom uye Chibvumirano cheAnglo-Soviet cha1942. Muna January 1955, hurumende yeSoviet yakashoropodza chisarudzo cheIraq chokubatana neBaghdad Pact, izvo zvakaita kuti Iraq igure ukama hwezvematongerwe enyika nemaSoviet. Pashure pokunge Faisal II abviswa musimba rechiuto musi wa14 July 1958, Republic of Iraq ichangobva kuziviswa inotungamirwa naGeneral Abd al-Karim Qasim yakatangazve hukama neSoviet Union, uye Soviet Union yakatanga kutengesa zvombo kuIraq. Muna 1967, Iraq yakasaina chibvumirano neUSSR chokupa rudzi rwacho mafuta mukutsinhana nokuwana kukuru zvombo zveEastern Bloc. Muna 1972, Iraq, zvino yava shamwari yapedyo yeMoscow yechiArab, yakasaina Chibvumirano Choushamwari Nokushandira Pamwe neSoviet Union. 