Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi

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 from 1974 to 1979, and the secretary of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.

Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi
محيي عبد الحسين مشهدي
Member of the Revolutionary Command Council
In office
September 1977 – August 1979
RCC ChairmanAhmed Hassan al-Bakr
Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch
In office
January 1974 – 16 July 1979
RC SecretaryAhmed Hassan al-Bakr
Personal details
Born1935
Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq
Died8 August 1979(1979-08-08) (aged 44)
Ba'athist Iraq
Political partyIraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

Ba'ath Party Purge edit

On 16 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. At an emergency meeting at al-Khild Hall in Baghdad, Saddam ordered Mashhadi to confess that he had conspired against the Iraqi government.[1] Mashhadi identified 68 co-conspirators, who were all led out of the hall and 21 of whom were executed afterwards in August.[2] [3]

A special court was formed to try the 68 defendants, and Mashhadi's name was announced among the executed on August 8, 1979.[4]

Positions edit

  • Member of the Central Workers' Bureau of the Ba'ath Party
  • Minister of State without a ministry, 1974
  • Member of the regional leadership of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, elected to the membership in 1977
  • Member of the Revolutionary Command Council
  • Secretary to President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. Saddam Hussein stated that Muhyiddin had been monitored since his work as a secretary to President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and that Saddam Hussein did not order his arrest immediately after Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr's resignation.

References edit

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Maliki leaves with no guns blazing". Middle East Eye.
  3. ^ "Iraq executes coup plotters". The Salina Journal. 8 August 1979. p. 12.
  4. ^ "لماذا أطلق هيثم البكر رصاصة لتصيب يد عدنان خير الله؟ (الحلقة الأخيرة)". February 27, 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-02-27.