Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
- January 9, 2024
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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Biography
| Name | Abdul Aziz al-Hakim |
| Birthday | Jan 1 |
| Birth Year | 1952 |
| Place Of Birth | Najaf |
| Birth Country | Iraq |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Parents | Muhsin al-Hakim |
| Siblings | Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim |
| Children(s) | Ammar al-Hakim |
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on January 1, 1952 in Najaf, Iraq. He was born in 1952, the son of Grand Ayatollah Muhsin Al-Hakim. Raised in Najaf and then received his theological education through the religious school there, known as the Hawza. He was married to the daughter of Mohammed Hadi al-Sadr and he was the father of two girls and two boys. His son Muhsin Abdul Aziz al-Hakim was a political adviser for him, and his other son Ammar al-Hakim became the Secretary General of Al-Mihrab Martyr Foundation. Seven of Abdul Aziz al- Hakim’s brothers were killed, six of them on the orders of Saddam Hussein.
Al-Hakim was the top candidate listed for the United Iraqi Coalition during the first Iraqi legislative election of January 2005 but did not seek a government post because the Alliance had decided not to include theologians in the government.
On December 4, 2006, al-Hakim met with George W. Bush and made a commitment to help end violence,
Under Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, SCIRI controlled Iraq’s Interior Ministry. In 2006 according to the United Nations human rights chief in Iraq, John Pace, said that every month hundreds of Iraqis were being tortured to death or executed by the Interior Ministry under SCIRI’s control. According to a 2006 report by the Independent newspaper: ‘Mr Pace said the Ministry of the Interior was “acting as a rogue element within the government”. It is controlled by the main Shia party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri); the Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, is a former leader of Sciri’s Badr Brigade militia, which is one of the main groups accused of carrying out sectarian killings. Another is the Mehdi Army of the young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who is part of the Shia coalition seeking to form a government after winning the mid-December election. Many of the 110,000 policemen and police commandos under the ministry’s control are suspected of being former members of the Badr Brigade. Not only counter-insurgency units such as the Wolf Brigade, the Scorpions and the Tigers, but the commandos and even the highway patrol police have been accused of acting as death squads.
He was a member of the United States-appointed Iraqi Governing Council and served as its president in December 2003. Brother of the Shia leader Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, he replaced him as leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq when Mohammed Baqir was assassinated in August 2003 in Najaf.
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Celebrity |
| House | Living in own house. |
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is one of the richest from Iraq. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Al-Hakim played a leading role in the ‘Safar Intifada’ in Iraq in 1977 and was imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1972, 1977 and 1979. He went into exile in Iran in 1980, where he was a founding member in 1982 of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a group set up under Iran’s auspices to bring Islamic revolution to Iraq. The group was led by Al-Hakim’s brother, Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. SCIRI would later change its name to the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
With the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in 2003 with the US-led invasion, Al-Hakim and SCIRI returned to Iraq where they have been major players in Iraq’s politics. SCIRI’s leader, Mohammed Baqir Al-Hakim, was assassinated on 29 August 2003, when a massive car bomb exploded as he left the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf. Following the murder, Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim became SCIRI’s head.
On December 5, 2006, on behalf of The Catholic University of America and American University’s Center for Global Peace, he spoke at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center. The title of his speech was “Freedom and Tolerance in Shi’a Islam and the Future of Iraq”. Notable guests at this event included Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. and Rabbi Professor Ephraim Isaac from the Institute of Semitic Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.
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