Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani

Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani (Arabic: محمد شياع السوداني; born 4 March 1970) is an Iraqi politician who has been the Prime Minister of Iraq since 27 October 2022.

[13][14] During 2011, he was briefly chairman of the Supreme National De-Baathification Commission|Justice and Accountability Commission for De-Ba'athification, which had the power to bar individuals from government for links to the former ruling Ba'ath Party.

[citation needed] He coordinated with the ministry of migration to help Iraqi citizens residing in Syria to return to Iraq during the Syrian Civil War.

"[18] He was appointed minister of Labour and Social Affairs in 2014, and his post in the ministry of human rights was succeeded by Mohammed Mahdi Ameen al-Bayati in October 2014, when the government of Haider al-Abadi took office.

[19] During his political career, Al Sudani has worked as the acting minister of a number of ministries: Agriculture, Finance, Migration and the Displaced, Industry and Minerals, and Trade.

In a bid to end the 2022 Iraqi political crisis, the coordination framework officially nominated Al Sudani for the post of prime minister in May 2022.

[21] In January 2023, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Al Sudani defended the presence of U.S. troops in his country and set no timetable for their withdrawal, referring to the U.S. and NATO troop contingents that train and assist Iraqi units in countering Islamic State, but largely stay out of combat, though he mentioned that the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq is no longer needed.

[26] In November 2023, during a meeting with Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, he described the Hamas attack on Israel as "a result of years of criminal policies of the Zionist regime against the people of Gaza.

[30] Also he received the Turkish president Recep Teyyip Erdogan and they signed a revolutionary project called the Iraq Development Road.

Al Sudani with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in April 2024
Al Sudani with US President Joe Biden in April 2024
Al Sudani with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in January 2025
Al Sudani with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in November 2023