the british position in the middle east was. however, the british were not planning on the sidelines watching nasser and the soviet union took the british position. eden, in 1955, finally, prime minister of great britain, then joined with enthusiasm to a defensiepact which since 12 january 1955 at the behest of iraq negotiated, especially after egypt was not insured "as a hinge upon which a new defensive organisation might turn". this so-called bagdadpact was in fact a defensieblok on russia's southern border, designed to stem the communist infiltration.
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