THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE BRITISH AGENCY IN BASRA (1763-1779)

Abstract

Britain was interested in the Arab Gulf region at the beginning of the seventeenth century with the aim of trade, and it did not have any political and strategic interest in the region, but its commercial activity quickly turned into political activity through the establishment of a number of commercial agencies in the Gulf region, most notably Basra, to which the agency was transferred from Port Abbas In Persian 1763, and from here begins the political history of Britain in the Persian Gulf region, in which Britain plays a prominent role in the internal and external events of Basra until 1779, when the activity of the British Agency in Basra ceased as a result of the political instability and the turmoil of the situation that resulted from the Persian occupation.