 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Mutungamiri weIraq Abdul Rahman Arif uye Mutungamiriri weIraqi Tahir Yahya vakadzingwa panguva ye 17 July coup détatrakatungamirirwa naAhmed Hassan al-Bakr weBaath Party, iyo yakanga yatova nesimba muna 1963 uye yaitungamirirwa zvikurukuru naal-Bakr, uyo akashanda semutungamiri wayo, naSaddam Hussein. Saddam, kupfurikidza nechigaro chake somukuru wemasangano ehungwaru ebato, akava mutungamiri wechokwadi wenyika nepakati pema1970. Mukutonga kwaal-Bakr de jure, upfumi hwenyika hwakakura, uye chimiro cheIraq munyika yeArabhu chakawedzera. Zvisinei, zvinhu zvakati wandei zvemukati zvaityisidzira kugadzikana kwenyika, pakati pazvo paive nekupokana kwehurumende nemapoka akasiyana mukati meIraqi Shia Muslim nharaunda pamwe neIraqi Kurdish nharaunda kuchamhembe ona Shia-Sunni sectarian mhirizhonga muIraq uye Iraqi-Kurdish kunetsana. Pamusoro pezvo, kurwisana kweIraq neImba yeIran yakavakidzana nayo nekuda kwekukakavadzana kwemiganhu yemuganhu pamusoro penzira yemvura yeShatt al-Arab yakashandawo sekutyisidzira kukuru kwekunze kugadzikana kwenyika. 