First Republic of Iraq

The Republic of Iraq, retroactively known as First Iraqi Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العراقية الأولى) and also as, Iraqi Republic, Qasimist Iraq (1958–1963) and Nasserist Iraq (1963–1968), was the Iraqi state created in 1958 under the rule of PresidentMuhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i and Prime MinisterAbdul-Karim Qasim. ar-Ruba'i and Qasim first came to power through the 14 July Revolution in which the Kingdom of Iraq's Hashemite dynasty was overthrown. As a result, the Kingdom and the Arab Federation were dissolved and the Iraqi republic established. Arab nationalists later took power and overthrew Qasim in the Ramadan Revolution in February 1963, and then Nasserists consolidated their power after another coup in November 1963. The era ended with the Ba'athist rise to power in a coup in July 1968.

Iraq was a unitary state with power centralised in the national government while it operated under the military regime, with the country additionally being under one-party rule as well.