Jaafari, Ibrahim

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Iraqi medical doctor and Shia politician, prime minister from 2005. A conservative Shia who had lived abroad during the regime of Saddam Hussein, he returned to Iraq after Saddam's overthrow by US-led forces in 2003 and served as vice-president in the US-appointed regime. He led the Islamic Dawa party, a key element of the United Iraqi Alliance, to poll success in Iraq's 2005 parliamentary elections, enabling him to become Iraq's first democratic prime minister since before the Saddam era. He was seen as a conciliatory figure in the new Iraq.

Born in Karbala, he studied at Mosul University to become a medical doctor. During the 1980s he left Iraq to live and work in Iran and the UK as a doctor.

Red, white, and black are the colours of Arab nationalism. Effective date: 4 October 1984. >>