Arif, 'Abd al-Rahman

Arif, 'Abd al-Rahman
▪ 2008

      Iraqi army officer and politician

born 1916, Baghdad, Iraq

died Aug. 24, 2007, Amman, Jordan
assumed the Iraqi presidency on April 17, 1966, four days after the death in a helicopter crash of his brother, Pres. ʿAbd al-Salam ʿArif. ʿAbd al-Rahman was regarded as a weak president, however, and in July 1968 he was deposed in a Baʿthist coup led by Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr. The ʿArif brothers both pursued military careers, with ʿAbd al-Rahman rising to major general. They were involved in the 1958 overthrow of King Faysal II and in the 1963 coup that in turn toppled ʿAbd al-Karim Qasim and brought ʿAbd al-Salam to power. Under his brother, ʿAbd al-Rahman served as acting chief of staff of the army. After being ousted as president, he lived in exile until 1979 and again after the U.S.-led overthrow in 2003 of Pres. Saddam Hussein.

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