Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
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The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, officially the Iraqi Regional Branch, is an Iraqi Ba'athist political party founded in 1951 by Fuad al-Rikabi. It was the Iraqi regional branch of the original Ba'ath Party, before changing its allegiance to the Iraqi-dominated Ba'ath movement following the 1966 split within the original party. The party was officially banned following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, but despite this it still continues to function underground.
Rikabi was one of the leading figures in early Ba'athist history
Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party student cell, Cairo, in the period 1959–1963
Qasim was executed by the Ba'athists inside the Iraqi Ministry of Defence building; the Ba'athists desecrated his corpse on Iraqi television.
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, as seen in 1974, led the Ba'athist coups of 1963 and 1968.
Ba'athism
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Ba'athism, also spelled Baathism, is an Arab nationalist ideology which promotes the creation and development of a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a socialist revolutionary government. The ideology is officially based on the theories of the Syrian intellectuals Michel Aflaq, Zaki al-Arsuzi, and Salah al-Din al-Bitar. Ba'athist leaders of the modern era include the former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein, former president of Syria Hafez al-Assad and his son, the current president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad.
Zaki Arsuzi, politician who influenced Ba'athist thought and that after the Ba'ath Party splintered became the chief ideologist of the Syrian-dominated Ba'ath Party
Michel Aflaq, the founder of Ba'athist thought, who, after the Ba'ath Party splintered, became the chief ideologist for the Iraqi-dominated Ba'ath Party.
Syrian neo-Ba'athist leader Salah Jadid (right) alongside Michel Aflaq (centre), 1963
Saddam Hussein (right) talking with Aflaq (left) in 1988.