Iraqi Independence Party

Iraqi Independence Party
حزب الاستقلال العراقي
FounderMuhammad Mahdi Kubba
Founded1946 (1946)
Dissolved1956 (1956)
Preceded byAl-Muthanna Club
Merged intoNational Union Front
NewspaperLiwa al-Istiqlal
IdeologyIraqi nationalism
Political positionRight-wing

The Iraqi Independence Party (Arabic: حزب الاستقلال العراقي, Hizb al-Istiqlal al-Iraqi) was an Iraqi nationalist political party founded in December 1945 that supported the independence of Iraq from British colonialism.[1]

  1. ^ Ghareeb, Edmund A.; Dougherty, Beth K. Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Ltd., 2004. Pp. 103-104.