Faysal I

Iraqi people, who believed they were “excising the bad memories of the British Mandate and monarchical rule”, toppled this statue in 1958. Saddam Hussein had a replica of the monument re-erected in 1989, possibly in order to align himself ideologically with the Faisal legacy.

Photo by Zzztriple2000

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