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Tariq al-Hashemi

Tariq Al-Hashimi
طارق الهاشمي
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Vice President of Iraq
In office
22 April 2006 – 10 September 2012
President Jalal Talabani
Preceded by Ghazi al-Yawer and Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Succeeded by Nouri al-Maliki
Leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party
In office
2004 – 24 May 2009
Succeeded by Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti
Personal details
Born 1942 (age 74–75)
Baghdad, Iraq
Nationality Iraqi
Political party Renewal List-Iraqi National Movement
Occupation Politician
Profession Army officer
Religion Sunni Islam
Military service
Allegiance Iraq Ba'athist Iraq
Service/branch Iraqi Army
Years of service 1962–1975
Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Unit Artillery

Tariq al-Hashimi (Arabic: طارق الهاشمي‎‎ Țāriq al-Hāshamī; born 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served as the general secretary of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) until May 2009. Along with Adil Abdul-Mahdi, he served as the Vice President of Iraq in the government formed after the December 2005 elections for five years. He has been serving as the Vice President (along with Khodair al-Khozaei) since 2011. As a Sunni, he took the place of fellow Sunni politician Ghazi al-Yawar. In December 2011, Hashimi fled to Iraqi Kurdistan to avoid arrest on murder charges. The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted him and sentenced him in absentia to death on 9 September 2012. As of April 2012, Hashimi is living in Ankara, Turkey, with the assurance that he will not be extradited.

Tariq al-Hashimi was born in 1942 in Baghdad, Iraq, in the Mashhadan tribe. From 1959 to 1962, he studied at the Baghdad Military Academy. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in an Artillery Battalion of an Armoured Brigade in 1962. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Al-Mustansiriya University in 1969, and a master's degree in 1978. At the age of 33, he left the Iraqi Army, and became active in the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), serving on its planning committee.

Hashimi was leader of the largest Sunni block, Iraqi Accord Front led by the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP). The block entered the 2005 elections, but withdrew later. Hashimi opposes federalism, wants oil revenues distributed based on population, de-Baathification reversed and more Sunnis in the new military and police. In fact, Hashimi argued that the inhabitants of the provinces could take the decision whether or not to form federal regions.


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