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COMMANDER // 1936–2015

Tariq Aziz

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of IraqIraqIraq

Lifespan

19362015

19401950196019701980199020002010

Profile

Tariq Aziz was an Iraqi politician and journalist who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1991. He was a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Additionally, Aziz was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council and the Regional Command of the Iraqi Branch of the Ba'ath Party. Ethnically Assyrian, he was both an Arab nationalist and a Chaldean Catholic.

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