By John Lee. President Nzar Amedi received a delegation from the parliamentary Investment and Development Committee at the Palace of Peace in Baghdad on Wednesday. According to the Media Department of the Iraqi Presidency, the meeting covered two main areas: Ways to improve Iraq's investment environment, with the President stressing the importance of supporting economic […]
By John Lee. The Iraqi parliament has elected Nizar Amidi [Amedi] (pictured) as the new President of Iraq on Saturday. Amidi, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), succeeds President Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid (also PUK), who withdrew from seeking a second term on Saturday. He has previously served as Minister of the […]
By John Lee. An Iraqi court has ruled that Hoshyar Zebari is not eligible to run for the position of President. The former foreign minister, who had been accused by some of corruption, said he respected the judiciary's decision, but described it as an injustice. According to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), there are currently […]
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq's newly elected president has chosen his prime minister and asked him to form the next government. The new president, Barham Salih, gave the nod to former oil minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. Hopefully, […]
By Mushreq Abbas for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The position of president in Iraq has always been described as an honorific one without privileges, which does not allow its occupant to affect the political course of events. However, this description does not stem […]
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Fuad Massoum elected in a step towards new government, but appointment comes as bombings and attacks continue unabated. Al Jazeera's Omar Al Saleh reports from Erbil.
By John Lee. The Iraqi parliament has elected Kurdish politician Fouad Massoum [Fuad Massum] as president, succeeding Jalal Talabani. The 76-year-old is a founding member of Mr Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party. Associated Press reports that Massoum is considered a soft-spoken moderate, known for keeping good relations with Sunni and Shiite politicians. According […]
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Following positive developments in the Iraqi parliament and the election of a speaker before […]
