Iraq: Heads of State: 2004-2025 |
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| Raʾīs al-Jumhūriyya (رئيس الجمهورية) :: Serok Komar (سەرۆک کۆمار) | President of the Republic [1] | |
| 28 Jun 2004 - 7 Apr 2005 | Ghāzī Mashʿal ʿAjīl al-Yāwar (غازي مشعل عجيل الياور) [2] |
| 7 Apr 2005 - 24 Jul 2014 | Jalāl Ḥusām al-Dīn Ṭālabānī (جلال حسام الدين طالباني) :: Jelal Husamedín Tallebaní (جەلال حوسامەدین تاڵەبانی) |
| 24 Jul 2014 - 2 Oct 2018 | Muḥammad Fuʾād Maʿṣūm Ḥawrāmī (محمد فؤاد معصوم هورامي) :: Mihemmed Fuad Me'súm Hewramí (محەممەد فوئاد مەعسووم ھەورامی) |
| 2 Oct 2018 -13 Oct 2022 | Barham Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ Qāsim (برهم احمد صالح قاسم) :: Berhem Ehmed Salih (بەرھەم ئەحمەد ساڵح) |
| 13 Oct 2022 - | ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad Jamāl Rashīd (عبد اللطيف محمد جمال رشيد) [3] |
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| [1] | Art. 36 of the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period (effective 28 Jun 2004 - 22 May 2006) provided for the election of a Raʾīs al-Dawla but the styles in official use were Raʾīs al-Jumhūriyya (Arabic) and Serok Komar (Kurdish). |
| [2] | Designated to assume the office of the President of the Republic by a resolution of the Governing Council (Majlis al-Ḥukūma) of 1 Jun 2004 and was recognized by a regulation of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA/REG/9 June 2004/10) dated 9 Jun 2004 (retroactively effective as of 1 Jun 2004); took office upon the dissolution of the Coalition Provisional Authority on 28 Jun 2004. |
| [3] | Elected by the House of Representatives on 13 Oct 2022, taking the oath of office immediately after the election (commencement of term according to the Constitution confirmed by a presidential decree of 18 Oct 2022 in Official Gazette, No. 4695, 24 Oct 2022, p. 1); handover ceremony was held in Baghdad on 17 Oct 2022. |
Last update: 08 May 2025