This concurs: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/iraqijews.html
“During these centuries under Muslim rule, the Jewish Community had it’s ups and downs. By World War I, they accounted for one third of Baghdad’s population. In 1922, the British recieved a mandate over Iraq and began transforming it into a modern nation-state.”

Jewishvertuallibrary substantiates the Arab version in that, except for the two-year Nazi influence, the problems were backlash from the Zionist take-over Palestine: “Yet, following the end of the British mandate, the 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community suffered horrible persecution, particularly as the Zionist drive for a state intensified.” Since the British Mandate ended May 14, 1948, do you suppose their putting it before the 1941 pogram was with the intention to mislead?

Did you even read the BBC account? Here’s more that conflicts with the conclusion of what you wrote:

“Steve Acre witnessed the bravery of his Muslim landlord from a palm tree.”

and

“A month earlier, a pro-Nazi lawyer Rashid Ali al-Gilani, had overthrown Iraq’s royal family, and started broadcasting Nazi propaganda on the radio.

“But when an attack on a British Air Force base outside Baghdad ended in humiliating failure, he was forced to flee. The Farhud took place in the power vacuum that followed.

“In a tragic twist to the tale, it turns out the British Army could have intervened to halt the violence. On 1 June, British cavalry were just eight miles from the city, having raced 600 miles from Palestine and Egypt under orders to prevent Iraqi oil falling into Nazi hands.

“To Britain’s shame, the army was stood down,” says historian Tony Rocca, co-author with Farhud survivor Violette Samash of the book, Memories of Eden.”

The Website for that book concurs: http://www.memoriesofeden.com/ Apparently Violette Smash was born about 1912 and it describes the harmonious relations the Jewish people had with the Muslims and Christians during her happy childhood. Your “The only reason the Nazis did not succeed in exterminating the Jews of Iraq is that the British regained control shortly after the Farhud,” doesn’t fit the story at the book Website and the BBC account that both say the British soldiers stood by and did nothing.

I am curious, what points do you think contradict my post?