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The government of Iraq is defined under the current Constitution, approved in 2005, as an Islamic, [1] democratic, parliamentary republic. [2] The government is composed of the executive , legislative , and judicial branches, as well as numerous independent commissions.
The new Iraqi leadership were also found to have treated the Vietnamese delegation more leniently compared to other foreign staffs in Iraq, despite having lost three men out of 13 personnel on its perilous journey from Jordan to Iraq. [3] The Vietnamese government criticized the decision to wage war on Iraq led by the United States. [4]
Iraq is a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic.It is a multi-party system whereby the executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers as the head of government, the President of Iraq as the head of state, and legislative power is vested in the Council of Representatives.
On 1 April 1941, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and members of the Golden Square staged a coup d'état and installed a pro-German and pro-Italian government. [45] During the subsequent Anglo-Iraqi War, the United Kingdom invaded Iraq for fear that the government might cut oil supplies to Western nations because of its links to the Axis powers. [45]
Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region) 5 Saddam Hussein صدام حسين (1937–2006) 1995 2002: 16 July 1979 9 April 2003 [5] 23 years, 267 days Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region) • Iraqi Governing Council (2003–2004) • — Jay Garner جاي غارنر (born 1938) Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance of Iraq —
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Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region) Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai أحمد حسين خضير السامرائي (born 1941) — 5 September 1993 29 May 1994 266 days Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region) Saddam Hussein صدام حسين (1937–2006) 1996 2000: 29 May 1994 [13] 9 April 2003 [14] 8 years, 315 days Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region)
The president of the Republic of Iraq [a] is the head of state of Iraq. Since the mid-2000s, the presidency is primarily a symbolic office, as the position does not possess significant power within the country according to the constitution adopted in October 2005.