Tariq Aziz
Tariq Aziz (28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraqi politician for the Ba'ath Party. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 24 January 1983 until 22 March 1991. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister from 1 August 1965 until 9 April 2003. For decades he was a close adviser to Saddam Hussein.
Aziz was born in the town of Tel Keppe near Mosul to a Sunni Arab family. He studied English at Baghdad University. He later worked as a journalist, before joining the Ba'ath Party in 1957. He was married to Khalifa Yusef and had children.
Aziz was arrested in 2003 and spent the rest of his life in custody. He died in hospital from a heart attack on 5 June 2015 in Nasiriyah, aged 79. He also suffered from heart disease, depression, diabetes, and ulcers.[1]
Tariq Aziz Media
The Ba'athist after the coup in Iraq, 1963
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Aziz with British actress Vanessa Redgrave in Baghdad, 1978.
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President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and Alexej Kossygin sign the treaty about friendship and cooperation between Iraq and USSR.
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Saddam Hussein and Aziz at an Arab League summit at Amman, Jordan in 1980
President Ronald Reagan and Tariq Aziz
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Aziz with President Saddam Hussein and Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan at Arab League summit in Amman, 1987
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Aziz receiving IAEA inspectors and an economic delegation from France
Vladimir Putin with Tariq Aziz-1
Aziz on the Most-Wanted Iraqi Playing Cards
صورة جثمان طارق عزيز بعد وصولها الى مطار الاردن
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- ↑ "Tariq Aziz, ex-Saddam Hussein aide, dies after heart attack". BBC. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.