[Arabian Islands]. Department of Arabian Gulf Affairs, Ministry of Information, Iraq. Al Jozorr al-Arabiya Bayn al-Atmaa' al-Ajnabiya a al-Estratigiya [The Arabian Islands between Foreign and Strategic Ambitions].

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Issued at the moment of the Iranian seizure of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb in 1971, this programmatic Gulf pamphlet forms part of an Iraqi state-sponsored nationalist series. Framed as a documentary survey, it presents the islands as inalienably Arab and historically attached to Sharjah and Ras al Khaimah, characterizing the events of November 1971 as an externally enabled occupation. The text marshals historical arguments to contest Iranian claims and to scrutinize British policy in the final phase of withdrawal from the Gulf.

A recurrent emphasis falls on the strategic and economic stakes of the islands, notably control of shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, military positioning, and potential resources, casting the dispute as emblematic of wider imperial competition over the Gulf. Produced in Baghdad on the eve of the formal establishment of the United Arab Emirates, the booklet captures the immediacy of Arab public discourse during a decisive moment of post imperial realignment in the region.