 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Munguva yokupandukira muIraqkutungamira kwemauto epasi munyika kwakapfuudzwa kubva kuGHQ India kuenda kuMiddle East Command, sezvo yekupedzisira yaive yega chimiro chaigona kutumira rutsigiro runoshanda kumabasa kuchamhembe kweIraq uye zvakare nekuti mashandiro emhepo aidzorwa neAir Officer Commanding-in-Chief AOC-in-C, Middle East. Muna Chikumi 1941 zvichitevera kupera kwekurwa muIraq kutungamira kwakapfuudzwa kudzokera kuMutungamiriri Mukuru, India C-in-C, India. Vakuru veMasoja vokuBritain vaida kudzorera kudzora mauto epanyika muIraq kuMiddle East Command asi vakasarudza kurega Operation Crusader ichienderera mberi vasati vaita chinjo dzipi nedzipi. Musi wa 12 Zvita 1941 Operation Crusader yave munzira yekubudirira, kutyisidzira kweGerman kubva kuCaucasus kwakadzikira uye nekurwiswa kweJapan kuThailand, Malaya neBurma maChief of Staff akafunga kuti yaive nguva yekuita shanduko muchimiro chekuraira; kubvisa mutoro weGHQ India kuitira kuti ikozvino ingango tarisa kumabvazuva uye kuitira kuti kuronga nekukurumidza kuitike kwemauto kuMiddle East nekumabvazuva kwenzvimbo dzeMediterranean. General Sir Archibald Wavell, zvino C-in-C, India, akashora danho rakadai sezvo aifunga kuti Iraq yaive mutoro wakawandisa uye kutsausa kuMiddle East Command; General Claude Auchinleck, zvino C-in-C, Middle East Command, vakatenda kuti yaive danho rakanaka uye yaizobvumidza kuronga nekukurumidza uye manejimendi uye mashandiro emasimba ese muMediterranean Basin neMiddle East kuti ave nehukama hwepedyo; Gurukota reHurumende rakatsigirawo danho rakadai sezvo raizobatsira kudzikisira mamiriro ekupa uye raizobatsirawo, gare gare, kuronga kuronga kwekuita nemauto eUnited States kana vaingova nekutungamira kumwe chete. Dare reDziviriro rakabvumirana neChief-of-Staff uye Middle East Command yakatorazve Iraq musi wa 12 Ndira 1942. Mauto ose muIraq aizivikanwa pakutanga se Iraqforce uye ipapo Iraq Command akasarudzwazve British Tenth Army. 