Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi | |
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محيي عبد الحسين مشهدي | |
Member of the Revolutionary Command Council | |
In office September 1977 – August 1979 | |
RCC Chairman | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr |
Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch | |
In office January 1974 – 16 July 1979 | |
RC Secretary | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr |
Personal details | |
Born | 1935 Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq |
Died | 8 August 1979 Ba'athist Iraq | (aged 44)
Political party | Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Muhyi Abdul-Hussein Mashhadi ( Arabic: محيي الدين عبد الحسين مشهدي الشمري; 1935 – 8 August 1979) was an Iraqi Ba'athist politician and leading member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq. He was a member of the Regional Command from 1974 to 1979, and the secretary of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
On 16 July 1979, President Saddam Hussein announced that his government had foiled a conspiracy between members of the Iraqi Ba'ath party and the Syrian Ba'athist government against the Iraqi Ba'athist government. At an emergency meeting at al-Khild Hall in Baghdad, Saddam ordered Mashhadi to confess that he had conspired against the Iraqi government. [1] Mashhadi identified 68 co-conspirators, who were all led out of the hall and 21 of whom were executed afterwards in August. [2] [3]
A special court was formed to try the 68 defendants, and Mashhadi's name was announced among the executed on August 8, 1979. [4]