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, the unpopular treaty which tied Iraq to British interests. Ultimately, due to the protests, the Iraqi government suspended plans to renew the treaty.