“s half brother and former head of intelligence Barzan al-Tikriti and former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan.”
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Tariq Aziz
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 natio…
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culture · Iraqi Assyrian politician (1936–2015) · politician · diplomat · journalist · statesperson · also Tariq Aziz, Mikhail Yuhanna, Aziz
Born 28 April 1936 · Died 5 June 2015 · Q315214
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2026· 3 entries
“The Dujail case is part of a chain of assassination operations against officials and I am one of the victims.”
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“Russia is resolutely against United States threats to strike Iraq as part of its war against terrorism,”
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2015· 2 entries
Died 2015-06-05.
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“These Americans are cowards, because if they were courageous, they would have confronted us face-to-face, rather than coming at us from behind”
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2009· 1 entry
For the executions of 42 merchants found guilty of profiteering in 1992 and another 7 years for relocating Kurds
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2002· 2 entries
“Iraq has never been a burden on the shoulders of either Russia or the Soviet Union. [Iraq] completely supports Russia on the issue of Chechnya, and this is no accident. Russia is our number one partner.”
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“As I told the [UN] secretary general, if anybody can have a magic solution, so that all these issues are being dealt with together, equitably and reasonably, we are ready to find such a solution and we are ready to cooperate with the United Nations,”
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1992· 1 entry
After the merchants had been charged by the Iraqi regime with manipulating food prices when Iraq was under international sanctions
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1990· 2 entries
Attention turned to Cairo after Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak called for an emergency summit on August 8 to discuss the crisis
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Aziz served as the international spokesman in support of the military action
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1988· 1 entry
Traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a treaty to end the Iran-Iraq War
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1984· 1 entry
Which was a significant shift in Iraq's foreign policy after years of tension with the United States
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq (1983–1991).
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1982· 1 entry
“s director of personal security, Abed Hamid Mahmud. He gave an account of the assassination attempt in 1982, saying conspirators had marked Saddam Hussein”
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1980· 1 entry
Dawa Party insurgents threw a grenade at him as he visited a Baghdad university, killing civilians around him
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1979· 3 entries
During the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana, a decision was made that the next summit in 1982 would be held in Iraq
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Aziz became Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, and worked as a diplomat to explain Iraq's policies to the world
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Career landmark: deputy prime minister (1979–2003).
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1977· 1 entry
Became a member of Saddam's Revolutionary Command Council
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1975· 1 entry
Aziz said Hussein had told David Rockefeller better relations would improve when the United States stopped interfering in Iraqi internal affairs
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1963· 3 entries
Following the Iraq Revolution of 1958, a time when Tariq Aziz was serving as the editor-in-chief of the party's newspaper
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Aziz was imprisoned in Syria for over a year and did not have direct access to firsthand information during that time
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Was editor of the newspaper Al-Jamahir and Al-Thawra, the main newspapers of the Ba'ath party
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-04-28.
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