Bayan Baqir Sulagh

Bakir Jabr az-Zubaidi

Bayan Baqir Sulagh ( Arabic بيان باقر سولاغ, DMG Bayān Bāqir Sūlāġ ), also as Bayan Jabr and Baqir Jabr az-Zubaidi (باقر جبر الزبيدي, DMG Bāqir Ǧabr az-Zubaidī ), a Turkmen Shiite belonging to the SCIRI party , is a former finance minister , interior minister and transport minister of Iraq .

Sulagh comes from the southeast Iraqi province of Maisan . While studying engineering at Baghdad University in the 1970s , he became a Shiite activist. When Saddam Hussein raided Shiite political organizations, Sulagh fled to Iran . He later joined the Shiite Islamist party Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) . In the 1990s he was the SCIRI representative in Damascus , Syria ; Since he was afraid that Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath regime would harm his family, he called himself Bayan Jabir at the time .

After he returned to Iraq, he was Minister of Construction and House of Justice in the Iraqi interim government under the then Prime Minister Iyad Allawi .

In the new Iraqi government in 2005 he became Minister of the Interior. Many Sunni politicians and clergy at the time called for Sulagh's resignation because they held him responsible for the mistreatment and even killing of Sunni prisoners.

From 2006 to 2010 Sulagh served as the successor to Ali Abd al-Amir Allawi as Iraqi finance minister. His successor in this office was Rafi al-Issawi . Between 2014 and 2016 he was Minister of Transport

Web links

• Iraq's post-war cabinet. on bbc.co.uk September 1, 2003