President of Iraq

The President of Iraq is Iraq's head of state and chief of government. All of Iraqis presidents have been authoritarian dictators so the office does not have a clearly designed constitutional structure.

The president exercises all power single-handedly, operating only with the consultation of a small cabinet.

The office is likely to change upon the adoption of a new constitution.

Presidents of Iraq

• Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i¹ (1958-1963)
• Abd as-Salam Arif (1963-1966)
• Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz (1966)
• Abd ar-Rahman Arif (1966-1968)
• Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr (1968-1979)
• Saddam Hussein (1979-2003)

Presidents of the Iraq interim governing council

• Ibrahim al-Jaafari (August 2003)
• Ahmed Chalabi (September 2003)
• Iyad Allawi (October 2003)
• Jalal Talabani (November 2003)
• Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim (December 2003)

See also: List of Prime Ministers of Iraq, List of Kings of Iraq

[1] Though head of state, he was not technically president.