Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The President of Iraq is Iraq's head of state and chief of government. All of Iraqis presidents have been authoritarian dictators so the office does not have a clearly designed constitutional structure. The president exercises all power single-handedly, operating only with the consultation of a small cabinet. The office is likely to change upon the adoption of a new constitution. Presidents of Iraq Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i1 (1958-1963) Abd as-Salam Arif (1963-1966) Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz (1966) Abd ar-Rahman Arif (1966-1968) Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr (1968-1979) Saddam Hussein (1979-2003) Presidents of the Iraq interim governing council Ibrahim al-Jaafari (August 2003) Ahmed Chalabi (September 2003) Iyad Allawi (October 2003) Jalal Talabani (November 2003) Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim (December 2003) Adnan Pachachi (January 2004) See also: List of Prime Ministers of Iraq, List of Kings of Iraq [1] Though head of state, he was not technically president. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.