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The New Arab
December 11, 2017
It was the first time such an arrangement had been suggested since the birth of the Iraqi Republic on 14 July 1958. Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Islamic High Counsel of Iraq, one of the main Shia Islamist parties to come to power alongside the US forces, said the proposal supported freedom of belief,Ãâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
July 26, 2017
Baghdad- Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Iraqi National Alliance party, has ended a three and a half decades of close relations with Iran when he announced on Monday his withdrawal from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which was established and sponsored by Iran. Hakim, further, announcedÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
May 29, 2017
Readers of newspapers in 2017 might not remember a time in which they haven't read about an ongoing war in Iraq – the Iran-Iraq war persisted throughout the 80s, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War, and ongoing US bombings reigned throughout the 90s, and the US intervention and theÃâà...
Middle East Eye
November 1, 2016
Al-Hakim, a young Iraqi who has spent a major portion of his life in neighbouring Iran and has little political and educational experience, took a position of power in Iraq following the death of his father, Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, who was conveniently given a position of power after the death of his older brother,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com (blog)
May 9, 2014
On a steel desk the engineer had placed a picture of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the father of Ammar al-Hakim. He picked up the picture and kissed it. The act wasn't lost on me. When Saddam Hussein was in power, Hakim's father had, from exile in Iran, led the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which SaddamÃâà...
niqash
November 7, 2013
Ammar al-Hakim became leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq when his father, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, died in 2009. After the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled the government of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's first elections saw the party become one of the nation's most powerful. However over the pastÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 18, 2011
Al Hakim characterized Bahrain as Iraq's "window to the Gulf states." He also conveyed appreciation for King Hamad having sent a personal emissary to express his condolences following the death of his father, Abdul Aziz Al Hakim, as well as Bahrain's support for the development of a democratic Iraq.
Telegraph.co.uk
August 27, 2009
Although not himself a cleric, Hakim wore a black cloak, grey robe and a black turban (the sign of a Syed, a descendant of the Prophet). Despite his failing health (he was suffering from lung cancer), he remained highly influential behind the scenes. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim married the daughter of MohammedÃâà...
New York Times
December 4, 2006
The meeting with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was part of an effort by the Bush administration to shore up the fragile Maliki government by reaching out to a wider circle of Iraqi politicians. The hourlong session in the Oval Office plunged Mr. BushÃâà...
