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Government Baath Socialist Party
Government
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Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Allawi, Lyad
Aref, Abd al-Rahman
Arif, Abdul Rahman
Arif, Abdul Salam
Bakr, Sidqi
Bolani, Jawad
Hussein, Saddam
Jassim, Abdel Qader
Kassem, Abdul Karim
Kaylani, Rashid 'Ali al
Pachachi, Adnan
Sa'id, Nuri al
Yawar, Ghazi al-
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Baghdad
Garmsar
Mosul
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History of Iraq
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| | 1937 | Bakr, Sidqi | |
| 11th Aug Mosul Death of Bakr Sidqi, who came to power in Iraq in 1936 through a violent coup, is assassinated in Mosul |
| 11th Aug Mosul General Bakr Sidqi, who came to power in Iraq in 1936 through a violent coup, is assassinated in Mosul |
| 1938 | Sa'id, Nuri al | |
| Dec A coup is launched in Iraq by a group known as "The Seven." Nuri al-Sa'id is named Prime Minister |
| 1939 | Sa'id, Nuri al | |
| Nuri al-Sa'id is forced out of office |
| 1941 | Kaylani, Rashid 'Ali al | |
| 1st April "The Seven" announce a coup in Iraq, Rashid 'Ali al-Kaylani is made head of the government |
| 1st May British troops invade Iraq to install a pro-British government, Rashid 'Ali requests German support, but Germany refuses to intervene and 'Ali is forced to flee to Iran |
| 1956 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 28th Oct Garmsar Birth of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| 1958 | Kassem, Abdul Karim | |
| Appointed Minister of Defence |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Iraq |
| Kassem seizes power, with local communist help |
| 1959 | Kassem, Abdul Karim | |
| Nasser regards the communist support for Kassem as hostile & they denounce each other |
| 1963 | Aref, Abd al-Rahman | |
| Appointed President of Iraq |
| 1963 | Arif, Abdul Salam | |
| Appointed President of Iraq |
| 1963 | Kassem, Abdul Karim | |
| Death of Abdul Karim Kassem, executed after a coup d'etat |
| Executed after a coup d'etat |
| 1964 | Arif, Abdul Salam | |
| Baghdad Arif adopts a new constitutiion |
| 1966 | Aref, Abd al-Rahman | |
| Appointed President of Iraq, succeeds his brother |
| Death of Abd al-Salam Aref, killed in a helicopter crash |
| 1966 | Arif, Abdul Rahman | |
| Appointed President of Iraq |
| 1966 | Arif, Abdul Salam | |
| Baghdad Death of Abdul Salam Arif, killed in a helicopter crash |
| 1967 | Arif, Abdul Rahman | |
| Appointed President of Iraq, wins an indefinite extension of his term |
| 1968 | Arif, Abdul Rahman | |
| 17th July Baghdad Arif surrenders himself to Tikriti & then is exiled to London |
| 17th July Baghdad Overthrown by a Baathist coup |
| 1968 | Hussein, Saddam | |
| 18th July Given responsibility for national security |
| 2004 | Allawi, Lyad | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Iraq, interim |
| 28th June An interim government officially takes over from the U.S. occupation authority |
| 2004 | Pachachi, Adnan | |
| 1st Jan Appointed President of the Governing Council |
| 2004 | Yawar, Ghazi al- | |
| Appointed President of Iraq, interim |
| 28th June An interim government officially takes over from the U.S. occupation authority |
| 2005 | Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud | |
| 3rd Aug "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world" |
| 15th Dec Describes the holocaust as a myth |
| 2006 | Bolani, Jawad | |
| 8th June Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 2006 | Jassim, Abdel Qader | |
| 8th June Appointed Minister of Defense |
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