Social media activists circulated a message from King Faisal I to Sheikh Khazal Al-Kaabi, Prince of Al-Ahwaz, regarding the Khorramshahr conference.
It is worth noting that the Khorramshahr Conference was held in 1922 AD to discuss the border disputes between the Sultanate of Najd and its annexes, Iraq and Kuwait, mediated by Sheikh Khazal in Khorramshahr, the capital of Ahwaz, and in the presence of Ahmed Al-Thunayan on behalf of King Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, the ruler of Kuwait Salem Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and the delegate of King Faisal and the delegate Britain’s Percy Cox.
Sheikh Khazal had strong ties with the rulers of the Gulf, specifically with the rulers of Bahrain and Prince Abdul-Aziz, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was a close personal friend of the late Kuwaiti princes Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber II, Sheikh Salem Al-Mubarak and Sheikh Ahmed Al-Jaber, and he was a friend of the Iraqi monarchy at the time.
Sheikh Khazal was also a strong and fierce opponent of the Iranian Empire, which was known as the Qajar state, a kingdom founded by the Qajar dynasty with its capital Tehran until Reza Pahlavi overthrew the last Qajar rulers in 1925, establishing himself the Pahlavi state
Prince Khazal al-Kaabi (June 24, 1861 – May 24, 1936), the Emir of the Arab State of Al-Ahwaz and was nicknamed the Prince of Khorramshahr. He is the fifth son of Sheikh Jaber bin Mardaw, the third Emir of Al-Ahwaz, and his mother is Noura, Sheikh Talal Al-Alwan’s daughter, head of the Al-Bawiya tribe. He was born in the village of Kot Al-Zein in the Abu Al-Khasib district in South of Basra, he took power after the murder of his brother, Mazal bin Jaber Al Kaabi in 1897. He is considered one of the most important influencers in the Arabian Gulf region during his rule and was called the sheikh of the Gulf sheikhs.
