Ali al-Zaidi

Ali al-Zaidi (born May 1, 1985, Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi businessman who became prime minister in May 2026 at a particularly volatile time when Iraq’s most important patrons, the United States and Iran, were at war with each other. Considered a compromise candidate between factions that favor or oppose close ties between Iran and Iraq, he was nominated after the United States pressured the Iraqi parliament to reject another term for Nouri al-Maliki, a...