Mohammad Tofiq Rahim
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Mohammad Tofiq Rahim | |
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 Hama Tofiq Rahim | |
| Official Spokesman of the Rewtî Gorran Party | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 July 1953 Silemani, Kurdistan, Iraq |
| Political party | Movement for Change |
| Residence(s) | Silemani, Kurdistan, Iraq |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Engineer |
| Website | http://www.gorran.org |
Mohammad Tawiq Rahim (Kurdish: محهمهد تۆفیق رهحیم) (born 1953) Is an Iraqi Kurdish politician. Born in Sulaimaniyah city in 1953, Rahim moved to France and subsequently the United Kingdom to complete his graduate studies in engineering at the Sorbonne and University of Bath. He returned to Kurdistan in 1979 and joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Peshmerga forces rising to Political beaureu member with responsibility for external relations, in part due to his command of several european languages. After the 1991 uprising in which the Kurd's overthrew Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, Rahim was elected as the region's first deputy speaker of parliament. He subsequently held several Kurdistan Regional Government posts including minister of humanitarian resources, the nascent government's foreign office. In september 2003, after the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime Rahim was appointed Minister of Industry and Mines in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council. In 2006 Rahim resigned from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan citing endemic corruption and nepotism. He is currently the official spokesman for the Movement for change, the Iraqi Kurdish opposition which garnered approximately a quarter of the federal regions votes in regional elections.
References
- BBC News (2003-09-01). "Iraq's post-war cabinet". Retrieved 2006-02-24.
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