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Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
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محمد شياع السوداني
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Al Sudani in 2025
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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 Labour and Social Affairs | |
| In office 8 September 2014 – 25 October 2018 |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Preceded by | Nassar al-Rubaye |
| Succeeded by | Bassem al-Rubaye |
| Acting 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 |
| Acting Minister of Trade | |
| In office 2016–2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Preceded by | Malas Abdulkarim al-Kasnazani |
| Succeeded by | Salman al-Jamili |
| Acting Minister of Migration and the Displaced | |
| In office 2014–2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Preceded by | Dindar Najman |
| Succeeded by | Jassim Mohammed al-Jaf |
| Acting Minister of Finance | |
| In office 8 September 2014 – 18 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Haider al-Abadi |
| Preceded by | Najeeba Najeeb |
| Succeeded by | Hoshyar Zibari |
| Acting Minister of Agriculture | |
| In office 8 March 2013 – 8 September 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Nouri al-Maliki |
| Preceded by | Izz al-Din al-Dawla |
| Succeeded by | Falah Hassan al-Zidan |
| 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 |
| Mayor of Amarah City | |
| In office 2004–2005 |
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Mohammed Shia' Sabbar Hatem Al Sudani
4 March 1970 Baghdad, Iraqi Republic |
| 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 Labour and Social Affairs, acting Minister of Industry and Minerals, acting Minister of Trade, acting Minister of Migration and the Displaced, acting Minister of Finance, acting Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Human Rights. Furthermore, he has also held the position of Governor of Maysan, and Mayor of Amarah.
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Early life and education
Al Sudani was born in Baghdad, on 4 March 1970, to a middle-class Shia Arab family. Hailing originally from the province of Maysan in southern Iraq, his father worked as an employee at the Agricultural Cooperative Bank of Iraq. At the age of 10, his father and five other family members were executed for being members of the Islamic Dawa Party, a banned party at the time that opposed Ba'athist rule in Iraq.
Al Sudani graduated from the University of Baghdad and holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural science and a master's degree in project management. Sudani participated in the 1991 uprisings that began after the end of the Gulf War.
Career
In 1997, Al Sudani was appointed to the Maysan Agriculture Office. He subsequently was appointed to a number of senior positions in the office such as the head of Kumait City Agriculture department, head of Ali Al-Sharqi City Agriculture department, and head of Agricultural Production department. He was also the supervising engineer in the National Research Program with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Early political career
After the invasion of Iraq, Al Sudani worked as a coordinator between the Maysan province administration and the Coalition Provisional Authority. In 2004 he was appointed Mayor of Amarah City, and in the 2005 provincial elections was elected as a member of Maysan Provincial Council. He was reelected in 2009 and appointed Governor of Maysan.
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 described their crimes as amounting to genocide and crimes against humanity. "We are facing a terrorist monster", he explained. "Their movement must be curbed. Their assets should be frozen and confiscated. Their military capacities must be destroyed."
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
He was appointed minister of Labour and Social Affairs 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.
Acting Minister
During his political career, Al Sudani has worked as the acting minister of a number of ministries: Agriculture, Finance, Migration and the Displaced, Industry and Minerals, and Trade.
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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), 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 permitted 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.
In November 2023, 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 airstrikes on Lebanon and met various leaders who discussed with him bilateral relations.
During the 2024 Syrian opposition offensives against the Assad regime, he stated that "What is happening in Syria today is in the interest of the Zionist entity Israel, which deliberately bombed Syrian army sites in a way that paved the way for terrorist groups to control additional areas in Syria." However, he avoided intervening in the conflict on the side of Bashar al-Assad despite pressure to do so from some domestic groups.
Personal life
Al Sudani is married and has four sons.
See also
In Spanish: Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani para niños
