ALGIERS AGREEMENT

(Accord)

In March 1975,IraqandIransigned an agreement in Algiers under which Iran halted its support for the revolt ofMulla Mustafa Barzaniin return for joint usage of the Shatt al-Arab River. Without Iranian aid, Barzani's longtime on-again, off-again revolt quickly collapsed, and the great Kurdish leader was forced into exile, where he died in 1979. The Algiers Agreement is still remembered by Kurds as a great disaster and evidence of foreign betrayal.

See alsoKissinger, Henry.