Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq is a

cabinet Cabinet or The Cabinet may refer to: Furniture * Cabinetry, a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors and/or drawers * Display cabinet, a piece of furniture with one or more transparent glass sheets or transparent polycarbonate sheets * Filin ...

ministry of

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

, responsible for conducting

foreign relations A state's foreign policy or external policy (as opposed to internal or domestic policy) is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, unions, and other political entities, whether bilaterally or through m ...

of the country.

Organisation

Iraq maintains 86

Diplomatic missions A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...

worldwide.

List of ministers

The following is a list of

foreign minister A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between co ...

s of Iraq since 1924:

Kingdom of Iraq The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq ( ar, المملكة العراقية الهاشمية, translit=al-Mamlakah al-ʿIrāqiyyah ʾal-Hāshimyyah) was a state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958. It was founded on 23 August 1921 as the Kingdo ...
(1921–1958)

*1924–1930: the prime ministers *1930–1931: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji *1931–1932: Jaafar al-Askari *1932–1933: Abdul Qadir Rashid *1933–1934: Nuri al-Said *1934: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji *1934: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1934–1936: Nuri al-Said *1936–1937: Naji al-Asil *1937–1938: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1938–1939: Nuri al-Said *1939–1940: Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi *1940–1941: Nuri al-Said *1941:

Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh Ali al-Hiazi al-Obeidi is an Iraqi politician, born on June 3, 1901 in Abu Ghraib. Life He entered politics in 1922, when he entered the elections of the House of Representatives and won the Diwaniya Brigade. He served as Mi ...

*1941:

Taha al-Hashimi Taha al-Hashimi (Arabic: طه الهاشمي ;1961–1888) served briefly as prime minister of Iraq for two months, from February 1, 1941, to April 1, 1941. He was appointed prime minister by the regent, 'Abd al-Ilah, following the first ouster o ...

*1941: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1941: Musa al-Shahbander *1941: Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi *1941–1942: Sayyid Salih Jabr *1942: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji *1942: Dawood Al-Haidari *1942: Nuri al-Said *1942–1943: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz *1943:

Nasrat al-Farisi Nusrat or Nusret or Nasrat ( ar, نصرت ) is a unisex given name, meaning "victory" in Arabic language, Arabic. It may refer to: Men Nasrat *Hiztullah Yar Nasrat, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo *Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah (died 1532), sultan of Ben ...

*1943: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz *1943–1944:

Mahmud Subhi al-Daftari Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name (), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning ''praise'', along with ''Muhammad''. Siam Mahmud *Mahmood (singer) (born 19 ...

*1944–1945:

Arshad al-Umari Arshad Pasha al-Umari ( ar, أرشد العمري; 8 April 1888 – 4 November 1978) was an Iraqi statesman from the ancient al-Omari family. Youth Arshad al-Umari was born in Mosul, Iraq on 8 April 1888 when his father was Mayor of Mosul. He ...

*1945–1946:

Hamdi al-Bajaji Hamdi al-Pachachi (Arabic: حمدي الباجه جي‎; 1886 – March 28, 1948), Iraqi politician born to a prominent family in Baghdad. He studied law at the Royal School in Istanbul, graduating in 1909. He taught at the Baghdad Law School f ...

*1946: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1946:

Ali Mumtaz ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

*1946–1948:

Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali ( ar, محمد فاضل الجمالي) (April 20, 1903 – May 24, 1997) was an Iraqi politician, Iraqi foreign minister, and prime minister of Iraq from 1953 to 1954. In 1945, al-Jamali, as Iraqi Minister of Foreig ...

*1948:

*1948: Muzahim al-Bajaji *1948–1949: Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi *1949: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz *1949:

*1949:

Shakir al-Wadi Shakir is both a surname and a given name, similar to the surname or name Shakur. Notable people with the name include: * Ahmad Muhammad Shakir, Egyptian scholar of Hadith (prophetic traditions) * Faiz Shakir, American Democratic political advisor a ...

*1949–1950: Muzahim al-Bajaji *1950: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1950–1951:

*1951: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1951–1952:

*1952:

*1953: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1953–1954: Abdullah Bakr *1954: Musa al-Shahbander *1954:

*1954–1955: Musa al-Shahbander *1955–1957: Burhanuddin Bashayan *1957: Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi *1957–1958: Burhanuddin Bashayan *1958:

*1958: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)

*1958–1959: Abdul Jabbar Jomard *1959–1963: Hashem Jawad *1963: Talib Shabib *1963:

Salih Mahdi Ammash Salih Mahdi Ammash ( ar, صالح مهدي عماش; 1924 – 30 January 1985) was an Iraqi historian, writer, author, poet and Iraqi Regional Branch politician and Iraqi army officer who sat on the Regional Command from 1963 to 1971. Life He w ...

*1963–1964: Subhi Abdul Hamid *1964–1965:

Naji Talib Naji Talib ar, ناجي طالب (1 July 1917 – 23 March 2012) was the prime minister of Iraq from 1966 to 1967, replacing Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz.Batatu, H: ''The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq - A study of Iraq's ...

*1965: Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz *1965–1967: Adnan Pachachi *1967–1968: Ismail Khairallah

Ba'athist Iraq Ba'athist Iraq, formally the Iraqi Republic until 6 January 1992 and the Republic of Iraq thereafter, covers the History of Iraq, national history of Iraq between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction), Arab S ...
(1968–2003)

*1968: Nasser al-Hani *1968–1971: Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly *1971: Rashid al-Rifai *1971–1974: Murtada Said Abdel Baki al-Hadithi *1974:

Shathel Taqa Shathel Taqa, (in Arabic:شاذل طاقة 28 April 1929 – 20 October 1974), an Iraqi poet, diplomat and politician. He is one of the pioneer founders of the School of Modern Arabic Poetry, which emerged in Iraq in the late 1940s and early 19 ...

*1974: Hisham al-Shawi *1974–1983:

Sa'dun Hammadi Sa'dun Hammadi (22 June 1930 – 14 March 2007; ar, سعدون حمادي) was an Iraqi politician. He was briefly Prime Minister of Iraq under President Saddam Hussein from March until September 1991. He succeeded Hussein, who had previousl ...

*1983–1991:

Tariq Aziz Tariq Aziz ( ar, طارق عزيز , 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraqi politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s w ...

*1991–1992: Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai *1992–2001:

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf ( ar, محمد سعيد الصحاف '; born 30 July 1937) is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2001. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasio ...

*2001:

*2001–2003: Naji Sabri

Republic of Iraq (2004–present)

References

External links

Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website
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