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Tariq Aziz

1979 – 2003

Tariq Aziz (April 28, 1936 - June 5, 2015) was Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister (1979–2003) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Iraq) (1983–1991) and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. An ethnic Assyrian, he was both an Arab nationalist and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church. He was sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal on October 26, 2010 for persecuting Islamic Parties

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