Al-Wathbah uprising

Al-Wathbah uprising
Date January 1948 Location Kingdom of Iraq Result Restoration of order More demonstrations in spring 1948
Belligerents
Iraqi Police	Student Cooperation Committee (communists) Progressive Democrats Populists Kurdish Democrats Student wings of the National Democratic Party and the Independence Party
Commanders and leaders
Faisal II Nuri al-Said	Yusuf Salman Yusuf (Fahd)
Casualties and losses
300-400 killed

The Al-Wathbah uprising (Arabic: انتفاضة الوثبة) or simply Al-Wathbah (Arabic: الوثبة), which means The Leap in Arabic, was the term that came to be used for the urban unrest in Baghdad in January 1948. The protests were sparked by the monarchy's plans to renew the 1930 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty that effectively made Iraq a British protectorate. Nuri al-Said, the Prime Minister of Iraq, was planning on renewing, albeit in a revised form, this 1930 treaty that tied Iraq to British interests, allowed for the unrestricted movement of British troops on Iraqi soil, and provided significant protection to the British-installed Iraqi monarchy.