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E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5CD)
Dopt of State lottar, Aug. 10, or E
American-Iraqi Relations
HOLITAL NAPE Date 7.1.75 1872
Irag
: ARCHIVEE SERVICE* 6
KLCORDS WATIONAL AND
Iraq is a small country, not quite as large as Texas,
lying between the mountains of Persia and the deserts of
Syria. Its northern and eastern borders are great mountain
walls which separate it from Turkey and Persia. The great
deserts of the south decline gently into the Persian Gulf.
The mountains of the north have relatively few forests
although reforestation is possible. They are hot in the
summer and cold in the winter. The deserts of central and
southern Iraq are hot and dry in the summer and are subject
to periods of stifling dust storms. The climate is agree-
able from November to May. The Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers traverse the entire length of the country from the
northwest to the southwest. These rivers, which join each
other in one great stream emptying into the Persian Gulf,
afford Iraq agricultural possibilities which no other
Arab country possesses. The present population of Iraq
is only about 5,000,000. The carrying out of relative-
ly inexpensive irrigation projects would make it possi-
ble for the country easily to support 25,000,000 people
as it did a thousand years ago.
The overwhelming majority of the population of Iraq
is Moslem although there are a small number of Christians
and
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