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Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
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محمد شياع السوداني
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Al Sudani in 2024
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| Prime Minister of Iraq | |
| Assumed office 27 October 2022 |
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| President | Abdul Latif Rashid |
| Preceded by | Mustafa Al-Kadhimi |
| Minister of Industry and Minerals | |
| In office 14 August 2016 – 25 October 2018 |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Preceded by | Nasser Al Esawi |
| Succeeded by | Salih Abdullah al-Jubouri |
| Minister of Labour and Social Affairs | |
| In office 14 September 2014 – 25 October 2018 |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Preceded by | Nassar al-Rubaye |
| Succeeded by | Bassem al-Rubaye |
| Minister of Human Rights | |
| In office 21 December 2010 – 18 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Nouri al-Maliki |
| Preceded by | Wijdan Michael Salim |
| Succeeded by | Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati |
| Governor of Maysan Province | |
| In office 2009–2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Nouri al-Maliki |
| Preceded by | Adil Mahwadar Radi |
| Succeeded by | Ali Dawai Lazem |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 March 1970 Baghdad, Ba'athist Iraq |
| Political party | Al-Furatayn (2019–present) Dawa (until 2019) |
| Alma mater | University of Baghdad |
| Profession | Politician |
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Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani (Arabic: محمد شياع السوداني; born 4 March 1970) is an Iraqi politician who has been the Prime Minister of Iraq since 27 October 2022. Prior to his premiership, he held a number of ministerial positions; namely, Minister of Industry and Minerals, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, acting Minister of Trade, acting Minister of Finance, acting Minister of Migration and Displacement, acting Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Human Rights. He was Governor of Maysan in 2009-2010.
Early life
Al-Sudani was born in 4 March 1970 to an Iraqi Shia Arab family in Baghdad. At the age of 10, he witnessed his father and five other family members being executed for membership of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Sudani holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Baghdad in Agricultural Science and a master's degree in Project Management. He is married and has four sons.
Sudani participated in the 1991 uprisings that began after the end of the Gulf War. In 1997, he was appointed to Maysan Agriculture Office, in which he was the Head of Kumait City Agriculture department, Head of Ali Al-Sharqi City Agriculture department, Head of Agricultural Production department and the supervisor Engineer in the National Research Program with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
After the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies in 2003, Sudani worked as a coordinator between the Maysan Province administration and the Coalition Provisional Authority. In 2004 he was appointed Mayor of Amarah City. In 2005 he was elected as a member of Maysan Province Council. He was reelected in 2009 and appointed governor by the council.
Career
Iraqi Minister of Human Rights
He was appointed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as the Minister of Human Rights after the 2010 parliamentary election, being approved by parliament on 21 December 2010.
His ministry was in charge of finding Mass graves in Iraq that occurred during the regime of Saddam Hussein. Two such instances were reported in 2011, One in Anbar and another in Al Diwaniyah.
During 2011, he was briefly chairman of the Supreme National De-Baathification Commission|Justice and Accountability Commission for De-Ba'athification, which had the power to bar individuals from government for links to the former ruling Ba'ath Party.
He coordinated with the ministry of migration to help Iraqi citizens residing in Syria to return to Iraq during the Syrian Civil War.
He was minister in August 2014 when thousands of Yazidis were massacred in northern Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh). He described it as "a vicious atrocity" and said it was the "responsibility of the international community to take a firm stand against the Daesh" and to "start the war on Daesh to stop genocides and atrocities against civilians". He asked the United Nations Human Rights Council to launch an investigation into crimes against civilians committed by ISIS.
He was moved to the ministry of Labor in 2014, and his post in the ministry of human rights was succeeded by Mohammed Mahdi Ameen al-Bayati in October 2014, when the government of Haider al-Abadi took office.
Prime minister
In a bid to end the 2022 Iraqi political crisis, the coordination framework officially nominated al-Sudani for the post of prime minister in May 2022. He succeeded in forming a government, which was approved by the Council of Representatives on 27 October.
In January 2023, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, al-Sudani defended the presence of U.S. troops in his country and set no timetable for their withdrawal, referring to the U.S. and NATO troop contingents that train and assist Iraqi units in countering Islamic State, but largely stay out of combat, though he mentioned that the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq is no longer needed.
The Economist has said that al-Sudani is affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), the state-sponsored militia umbrella organization that unites different armed factions, and his tenure has seen their influence further increase in Iraq. His government has increased the number of troops for the PMF by 116,000, increasing the total number to around 230,000, and has set its budget to US$2.7 billion. It has also launched a building company affiliated with the PMF, named after killed PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis; the company gives preferential access to government contractors and the government has awarded the company with strategic land.
On 20 July 2023, al-Sudani expelled the Swedish ambassador to Iraq and revoked work permits for Swedish companies after Sweden approved a planned Quran burning.
On 10 October 2023, al-Sudani arrived in Moscow and met with Russian president Vladimir Putin. On 21 October 2023, he called for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war. During a meeting with Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, he described the Hamas attack on Israel as "a result of years of criminal policies of the Zionist regime against the people of Gaza."
On 17 February 2024, he met with German chancellor Olaf Scholz in Munich while he was attending the Munich Security Conference where he met with various world leaders.
In April 2024, al-Sudani condemned the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. Also in this same month he visited the United States and met with President Joe Biden. Also he received the Turkish president Recep Teyyip Erdogan and they signed a revolutionary project called the Iraq Development Road.
In May 2024, he attended the memorial ceremony for late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, in Iranian capital, Tehran.
In September of 2024 at the UNGA he condemned the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and met various leaders who discussed with him bilateral relations.
See also
In Spanish: Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani para niños
