Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
Post-split Iraqi Ba'athist political party
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في العراق, romanized: Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī fī al-'Irāq), officially the Iraqi Regional Branch, was the Iraqi regional branch of the pan-Arab Ba'ath Party, founded in the early 1950s and officially brought to power through the 1968 coup d'état. Rooted in the ideology of Ba'athism, the party combined Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, republicanism, and anti-imperialism, though it developed a distinctive Iraqi character under Saddam Hussein's leadership, often referred to as Saddamist Ba'athism. From 1968 to 2003, the Ba'ath Party dominated Iraq's political landscape, exerting total control over state institutions, the military, and society through an extensive and often brutal internal security network. It facilitated Saddam Hussein's rise to absolute power in 1979 and played a central role in shaping Iraq's domestic and foreign policies, including the Iran–Iraq War, the invasion of Kuwait, and...
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