Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf

Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf (Arabic: طه محيي الدين معروف; 1924 – 7 August 2009) was an Iraqi-Kurdish politician and diplomat who served as the Vice president of Iraq from 1974 until the U.S. invasion in April 2003.

[1] He was also a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, making him one of the few Kurdish leaders to hold a prominent position within the Baathist regime, albeit in a largely ceremonial capacity.

Marouf's political career spanned several decades, beginning with his role in the KDP and evolving through various governmental and diplomatic positions.

After leaving the KDP following internal splits in 1964, he joined the Ibrahim Ahmed and Jalal Talabani wing of the party before transitioning to the diplomatic corps in the 1960s.

Following the failure of the Kurdish rebellion in 1975 and the signing of the Algiers Agreement between Iraq and Iran, Marouf was appointed Vice President under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.

Marouf was an ethnic Kurd in Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party hierarchy, but the Kurdish community viewed his appointment as a mere gesture, believing that he had little real power.