Muhammad Mahdi Kubba ( ar, محمد مهدي كبة) (19001984) was an Iraqi

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and Vice President. Kubba was the President of the Iraqi Independence Party.

Sovereignty Council

In the wake of the

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, the new Iraqi Republic was headed by a Revolutionary Council. At its head was a three-man sovereignty council, composed of members of Iraq’s three main communal/ethnic groups. Kubba was appointed to represent the

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population; Khalid al-Naqshabandi the

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; and

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the

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population. This tripartite was to assume the role of the Presidency. A cabinet was created, composed of a broad spectrum of Iraqi political movements: this included two National Democratic Party representatives, one member of al-Istiqlal, one Ba’ath representative and one

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.T. Abdullah, ''A short history of Iraq: 636 to the present'', Pearson Education, Harlow, UK,(2003) Following the failed

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by Arab nationalists, Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim grew increasingly dependent on the Iraqi Communist Party, whose distrust of Arab nationalists seemed vindicated to Qasim by the revolt. Qasim allowed the Communist Party to purge the government of

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. Kubba, despite his membership of the Sovereignty Council, was put under house arrest. As a result, the last time Kubba attended a meeting of the Sovereignty Council was in February 1959, although no resignation was ever made public.

Personal life

Kubba was later publish his memoirs, ''Memoirs in the Course of the Events'', in 1965.Memoirs in the Course of the Events - Muhammad Mahdi Kubbah
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References

1900 births 1984 deaths Iraqi Shia Muslims People from Samarra Vice presidents of Iraq {{Iraq-politician-stub