The Iraqi National Dialogue Council is a
Sunni Islamist political party initially established as an umbrella organization of approximately ten smaller Sunni parties to take part in the 2005
Iraqi Constitution drafting process. The party was founded by
Saleh al-Mutlaq
Saleh Muhammed al-Mutlaq ( ar, صالح محمد المطلك; born 1 July 1947) is an Iraqi politician who is the head of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, the fifth largest political list in Iraq's parliament. From 21 December 2010 to 11 ...
and
Khalaf al-Ulayyan. During the Iraqi Constitution drafting negotiations in 2005, the party was advised by
Sadoun al-Zubaydi, an Iraqi foreign policy expert and former personal translator to
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...
. In the lead-up to the
December 2005 elections, Mutlaq left the National Dialogue Council and formed his own party and gave it a similar name: the
Iraqi National Dialogue Front. 'Ulayan now leads the party, which is the smallest of three parties that compose the
Iraqi Accord Front
The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front (Arabic: جبهة التوافق العراقية ''Jabhet Al-Tawafuq Al-'Iraqiyah'') also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Par ...
(''Tawafuq'') coalition. The parties which compose the organisation originate from Iraq's wider
Arab
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
populated region.
A member of the INDC,
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani
Dr. Mahmoud Dawud al-Mashhadani ( ar, محمود المشهداني) is an Iraqi politician and a former Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives. He was elected to the Council of Representatives as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord ...
, was the speaker of the
Council of Representatives from May 2006 until June 2007.
On, April 12, 2007,
Mohammed Awad
Mohammed Hussain Awad Al-Juboori () was a political party member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council that is a moderate Sunni block. He was a representative of this block at the National Assembly of Iraq. On 12 April 2007, he was killed in th ...
a member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council was killed in the
Green Zone
The Green Zone ( ar, المنطقة الخضراء, translit=al-minṭaqah al-ḫaḍrā) is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad. It was a area in the Karkh district of central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the governmental ...
at the convention centre canteen of the parliament building in Baghdad
Islamic political parties in Iraq
Sunni Islamic political parties
Political parties of minorities
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