What if: Iraq's al-Anbar province is apart of the British Mandate of Palestine

[phk]

What if: Iran's al-Anbar province is apart of the British Mandate of Palestine and is subsequently included in Transjordan (later the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan).

- Al-Anbar is universally Sunni Arab (98% to 99%).
- Saddam had a strong contingent of followers there.
- Was problematic for the US army to stabilize in the wake of Saddam's downfall.

How would this effect Iraq?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Wouldn't ever happen, at least not all of al-Anbar.  I can't see the 7 districts along the Euphrates and Tigris being incorporated into Palestine.  Maybe some of the largish Ar Rutba district if they wanted to give Transjordan more desert, but that would be about it.

[phk]

Wouldn't ever happen, at least not all of al-Anbar.  I can't see the 7 districts along the Euphrates and Tigris being incorporated into Palestine.  Maybe some of the largish Ar Rutba district if they wanted to give Transjordan more desert, but that would be about it.

Do you envision some of Iraq's more homogeneous Sunni Arab governates being included in the French Mandate of Syria somehow?

[Verily]

Wouldn't ever happen, at least not all of al-Anbar.  I can't see the 7 districts along the Euphrates and Tigris being incorporated into Palestine.  Maybe some of the largish Ar Rutba district if they wanted to give Transjordan more desert, but that would be about it.

Do you envision some of Iraq's more homogeneous Sunni Arab governates being included in the French Mandate of Syria somehow?

The problem is that the Europeans were mostly focused on keeping the boundaries in the high desert, where few people live anyway. No likely redrawing of the boundaries would have had more than a negligible impact.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Do you envision some of Iraq's more homogeneous Sunni Arab governates being included in the French Mandate of Syria somehow?

No, but if something closer to Sykes-Picot had been followed, then Iraqi Kurdistan (including Mosul) would have been part of the French mandates.  Britain definitely wanted a land corridor for a Cairo-Baghdad railroad, so moving any part of al-Anbar to French control wasn't likely at all.