Ubaidullah Barzani was an Iraqi Kurdish politician, and the eldest son of the Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani.
[1] He was born in 1927, and was his father's right-hand man.
He was imprisoned in Basra from 1947 to 1955 after the failure of a rebellion led by his father against the Iraqi government.
He defected from his father in 1973, and supported the Iraqi government's plan to declare an autonomous region in northern Iraq.
He was appointed as Minister of State in the Iraqi government in 1974 during the rule of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and continued in his position in the Iraqi government during Saddam Hussein's rule, but was executed in the early 1980s.