Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq
| المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq |
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| Party leader | Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim |
| founding | 1982 by Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim |
| Alignment | right : Shiite Islamism , Khomeinism , religious conservatism , federalism |
| Colours) | green |
| Parliament seats | 12 of 325 on the Council of Representatives |
| Website | http://www.almejlis.org/ |
The Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq ( Arabic المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي al-Majlis al-aʿlā l-islāmī l-ʿIrāqī ) is an Iraqi party . In the press and radio, the acronym SIIC isoften used as an abbreviation, which is the abbreviation of the English translation ( Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council ), the German abbreviation is OIRI .
The SIIC is a Shiite party and the largest member of the United Iraqi Alliance ( UIA ), a large, predominantly Shiite party alliance that ran for the Iraqi election on January 30, 2005 . The UIA won around 4 million votes (48.1% of the votes cast) and was thus the clear winner. In the 2010 general election , however, the Supreme Council with the Iraqi National Alliance was only third.
history
The SIIC was founded in 1982 under the name Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (المجلس الأعلى للثورة الإسلامية في العراق al-Majlis al-aʿlā lith-thaura l-islāmiyya fī l-ʿIrāq , English Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , SCIRI) founded by Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim and led by him. The main goal was the overthrow of Saddam Hussein . The party hadits headquarters in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war and was recognized by Iran as the government of the "Islamic Republic of Iraq". The SCIRI, like Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ,advocateda state of God in which power lies in the hands of religious scholars; this was in contrast to the idea of the state of the other major Shiite party, Daʿwa , which wanted a state in which the people had power.
After Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003, SCIRI worked closely with other Shiite parties. The party leaders shed some of their old beliefs and embraced democracy .
On August 29, 2003, the leader of the party, Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, was killed by a car bomb in front of the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf . Thereupon his brother Ayatollah Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim took over the leadership of the party.
On May 11, 2007, the SCIRI announced that it would delete the addition “Islamic Revolution” from the name and henceforth take the name Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq . This step was justified by the fact that the addition of the Islamic Revolution was seen as a symbol for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and that this was no longer necessary after his overthrow.
After the death of Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim in 2009, his son Ammar al-Hakim took over the leadership.
Militias
The armed arm of the party are the Badr Brigades , an estimated 4,000 to 10,000 Iraqis in exile from Iran , which were financed and militarily supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's intelligence service, the Quds Brigades , and trained in Iran during the 1990s.
Members
Some key members of the party are among others
- the Deputy President of Iraq, Adil Abd al-Mahdi ,
- the finance minister and former highly controversial minister of the interior of the Iraqi government , Bayan Baqir Sulagh , also known as Bayan Jabir,
- the Chairman of the Commission for a New Iraqi Constitution, Hummam Hammudi , and
- former Deputy Foreign Minister Hamad al-Bayati .
literature
- Hafez, Kai / Schäbler, Birgit (Hrsg.): Iraq: Land between war and peace. Heidelberg 2003.
- Ibrahim, Ferhad: Denominationalism and Politics in the Arab World: The Shiites in Iraq. Munster 1997.