>>20168275Oh yes, most definitely, they even have a name : the Baghdadi jews. The most prominent ones beside the Sassoons and Kadoorie were the Ezra, Meyer, Belilios, Judah and Elah dynasties. They already had total control over the trading routes in Iraq > India/Asia during the mughal ruling over the region, and then after that during the Ottoman empire. Just like in Europe they were the personal financiers and "jewellers" of the rulers, where they accepted to cancel the immense debts of princes/nabob/nawab compulsed during wars in exchange of preferential tariffs/duty free transport of merchandises and control over the toll posts (which usually rose x5 in price once the kikes were in charge of those) allowing them to stifle the concurrence.
But then as they couldn't help themselves, they were accused by the locals authorities of well poisoning and blood sacrifices on young male children (wow this story remind me something similar on few hundreds others places! filthy antisemites are the same everywhere, aren't they?)and were violently ousted, so profited from the trading roads opened by the british via the EIC to migrate fully in the main trading posts : Calcutta, Mumbai, Bombay, Surat, HK, Singapore and Shanghai.
Since they were already familiar with the language and local -corrupt- rulers, they teamed up with the british jewish aristocracy (Mocattas, Rothschilds, Goldsmids, Montagus, Montefiores) to make themselves indispensable intermediaries to the bongs. At first the british weren't so fond of it, but after few local mutinies financed by the jews in the coastal region they quickly learned they couldn't do without them.
So the iraqi jews basically kept their control over the trading posts, but now instead of doing Ottoman empire > Asia they did Europe > Asia, who made them even more wealthy than they previously were.