All of the Following Are Correct About Iraq Except

All of the following are correct about Iraq except

A) the region had been under Ottoman rule since the seventeenth century.
B) after World War I, the British governed Iraq under a League of Nations "mandate."
C) the British ruled through the minority urban Shi-ite population.
D) a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad became king in 1921.
E) oil was discovered near Kirkuk in 1927.