Minister of Foreign Affairs (Iraq)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq
وزارة الخارجية العراقية
Incumbent Fuad Hussein since 6 June 2020
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Member of	Cabinet
Reports to	President of the Republic Prime Minister
Seat	Green Zone
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	Council of Representatives
Term length	Four-year term, renewable
Formation	1924
Website	https://mofa.gov.iq/

Politics of Iraq
Member State of the Arab League
Constitution
Government Federal government President (list) Abdul Latif Rashid Prime Minister (list) Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani Cabinet Current cabinet
Legislature Council of Representatives Speaker: Mohamed al-Halbousi
Judiciary Supreme Court
Administrative divisions Governorates (provinces) Districts Kurdistan Region Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan Parliament
Elections Political parties Electoral Commission Recent elections Parliamentary: 2018 2021 next Gubernatorial: 2009 2013 2023 2005 constitutional referendum
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq is a cabinet ministry of Iraq, responsible for conducting foreign relations of the country.

Iraq maintains 86 Diplomatic missions worldwide.

The following is a list of foreign ministers of Iraq since 1924:^[1]

• 1924–1930: the prime ministers
• 1930–1931: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji
• 1931–1932: Ja'far al-Askari
• 1932–1933: Abdul Qadir Rashid
• 1933–1934: Nuri al-Said
• 1934: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji
• 1934: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1934–1936: Nuri al-Said
• 1936–1937: Naji al-Asil
• 1937–1938: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1938–1939: Nuri al-Said
• 1939–1940: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1940–1941: Nuri al-Said
• 1941: Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh
• 1941: Taha al-Hashimi
• 1941: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1941: Musa al-Shabandar
• 1941: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1941–1942: Sayyid Salih Jabr (acting)
• 1942: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji (acting)
• 1942: Dawood Al-Haidari (acting)
• 1942: Nuri al-Said (acting)
• 1942–1943: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz
• 1943: Nasrat al-Farisi
• 1943: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz
• 1943–1944: Mahmud Subhi al-Daftari
• 1944–1945: Arshad al-Umari
• 1945–1946: Hamdi al-Pachachi
• 1946: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1946: Ali Mumtaz
• 1946–1948: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1948: Hamdi al-Pachachi
• 1948: Nasrat al-Farisi
• 1948: Muzahim al-Bajaji
• 1948–1949: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1949: Abdul Ilah al-Hafiz
• 1949: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1949: Shakir al-Wadi
• 1949–1950: Muzahim al-Bajaji
• 1950: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1950–1951: Shakir al-Wadi
• 1951: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1951–1952: Shakir al-Wadi
• 1952: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1953: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
• 1953–1954: Abdullah Bakr
• 1954: Musa al-Shabandar
• 1954: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1954–1955: Musa al-Shabander
• 1955–1957: Burhanuddin Bashayan
• 1957: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi
• 1957–1958: Burhanuddin Bashayan
• 1958: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
• 1958: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

• 1958–1959: Abdul Jabbar Jomard
• 1959–1963: Hashem Jawad
• 1963: Talib Shabib
• 1963: Salih Mahdi Ammash
• 1963–1964: Subhi Abdul Hamid
• 1964–1965: Naji Talib
• 1965: Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz
• 1965–1967: Adnan Pachachi
• 1967–1968: Ismail Khairallah (acting)

• 1968: Nasser al-Hani
• 1968–1971: Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly
• 1971: Rashid al-Rifai
• 1971–1974: Murtada Said Abdel Baki al-Hadithi
• 1974: Shathel Taqa
• 1974: Hisham al-Shawi (acting)
• 1974–1983: Sa'dun Hammadi
• 1983–1991: Tariq Aziz
• 1991–1992: Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai
• 1992–2001: Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
• 2001: Tariq Aziz (acting)
• 2001–2003: Naji Sabri

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
	Hoshyar Zebari		1 September 2003	11 July 2014	Kurdistan Democratic Party		Coalition Provisional Authority, Ayad Allawi, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, and Nouri al-Maliki
	Hussain al-Shahristani (interim)		11 July 2014	8 September 2014	State of Law Coalition		Nouri al-Maliki
	Ibrahim al-Jaafari		8 September 2014	25 October 2018	State of Law Coalition		Haider al-Abadi
	Mohamed Ali Alhakim		25 October 2018	12 May 2020	Independent		Adil Abdul-Mahdi
	Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (interim)		12 May 2020	6 June 2020	Independent		Mustafa Al-Kadhimi Mohammed Shia al Sudani
	Fuad Hussein		6 June 2020	Incumbent	Kurdistan Democratic Party

• Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website