Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi
Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi | |
|---|---|
| محيي عبد الحسين مشهدي | |
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| Member of the Revolutionary Command Council | |
| In office 4 September 1977 – 1 August 1979 | |
| RCC Chairman | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr Saddam Hussien |
| Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch | |
| In office 2 January 1974 – 16 July 1979 | |
| RC Secretary | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1935 Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Died | 8 August 1979 (aged 44) Ba'athist Iraq |
| Political party | Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi (Arabic: محيي الدين عبد الحسين مشهدي الشمري; 1935 – 8 August 1979) was an Iraqi Ba'athist politician and leading member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq. He was a member of the Regional Command[1] and the Revolutionary Command Council[2] and also was the secretary of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
Ba'ath Party Purge
[edit]Mashhadi was the secretary of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. Then-vice president Saddam Hussein had been monitoring him since the early months of his work as a secretary to the President.[3] On 18 July 1979, President Saddam Hussein announced that his government had foiled a conspiracy between members of the Iraqi Ba'ath party and the Syrian Ba'athist government against the Iraqi Ba'athist government. Four days later, an emergency meeting at al-Khild Hall in Baghdad was set in motion by president Saddam and he ordered the event be recorded to set fear in the hearts of all members of the party and set an example out of Mashhadi for future members who will think about betraying Saddam or his ruling party.[4] Mashhadi was ordered by Saddam to confess in front of all senior members that he had conspired against the Iraqi government and name some of his accomplices. Mashhadi, after having spent nearly two years as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, was identified and tried as one of the 68 conspirators, who were all led out of the hall and 22 of whom were executed afterwards on 8 August 1979.[5][6][7]
A special court was formed to try the 68 defendants, and Mashhadi's name was announced among the executed on 8 August 1979.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v27/d317
- ^ Baram, Amazia (1989). "The Ruling Political Elite in Bathi Iraq, 1968-1986: The Changing Features of a Collective Profile". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 21 (4): 447–493. doi:10.1017/S0020743800032888. JSTOR 164101.
- ^ https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2018/03/baath-party-archives-reveal-brutality-saddam-husseins-rule
- ^ "Saddam's 1979 Baath Party purge". BBC News.
- ^ "Maliki leaves with no guns blazing". Middle East Eye.
- ^ "Iraq executes coup plotters". The Salina Journal. 8 August 1979. p. 12.
- ^ "صدام ورفاقه: سيرة خوف وموت – الحلقة الحادية عشر – الصحيفة العربية العراقية". 2015-05-01. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "لماذا أطلق هيثم البكر رصاصة لتصيب يد عدنان خير الله؟ (الحلقة الأخيرة)". February 27, 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-02-27.
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