Abdul Aziz al-Hakim

Ayatollah Abd al - Aziz al -Hakim, Abdul Aziz al -Hakim, (Arabic: عبد العزيز الحكيم, DMG ʿ Abd al - ʿ Azeez al -Hakim, born 1950 or 1953 in Najaf; † August 26, 2009 in Tehran ) was a Iraqi cleric and politician. He was the son of Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al -Hakim.

Ayatollah al -Hakim was opposed to Saddam Hussein; to escape his pursuit, he fled to Iran. There, founded his brother, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al -Hakim, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SCIRI ), an Islamist party whose main objective was the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and entering today for a decidedly Islamic identity of Iraq.

After 23 years in exile Abd al - Aziz al -Hakim returned from Iran and was appointed a member of the Iraqi Governing Council appointed by the United States.

After his brother was killed in August 2003 in an attack, he became the new chairman of the SCIRI. He also led in the Iraqi election on 30 January 2005, the predominantly Shiite United Iraqi Alliance party alliance, which also includes the SCIRI belonged. The United Iraqi Alliance went with 48 % of the vote clearly the winner of the election out and gained the absolute majority of seats in the National Assembly. He proposed to constitute the Shiite-dominated southern Iraq as an autonomous region called Sumer, which is particularly the Sunni minority rejected immediately.

On 26 August 2009 he died in a hospital in Tehran on a cancer. He was buried in the crypt next to his brother in Najaf.