Tariq Aziz (Arabic: طارق عزيز Ṭāriq ʿAzīz, 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister (1979–2003) and Foreign Minister (1983–1991) and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He was both an Arab nationalist and an ethnic Assyrian, and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
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Mikhail Yuhanna 28 April 1936 Tel Keppe, Iraq
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Died |
5 June 2015 (aged 79) Nasiriyah, Iraq
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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