Tariq Aziz

Tariq Aziz (born April 28, 1936, Qaḍā Talkīf, Iraq—died June 5, 2015, Al-Nāṣiriyyah, Iraq) was an Iraqi public official who served as foreign minister (1983–91) and deputy prime minister (1979–2003) in the Baʿathist government of Saddam Hussein. Tariq Aziz was born Mīkhāʾīl Yūḥannā to a Chaldean Catholic family in northern Iraq. He studied English at Baghdad University and worked as a journalist after earning his degree. Beginning in 1958, he wrote for a series of...