Taha Mohidin Ma'roof, also known as Taha Haji Mullah Mohidin, was elected a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan National Union (KNU) in 1946. On Friday, May 2, 2003, after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, he surrendered He was detained by US forces for a while and then released. After that, he moved to Sulaimani and later lived in Dukani township of Sulaimani province.

Biography

Taha Mohiddin Ma'roof, also known as Taha Haji Mullah Mohiddin, was born in 1924 in Sulaimani, Kurdistan In 1948, he received a bachelor's degree in law from the College of Law in Baghdad, on May 29, 1955, by order The king was promoted from first grade to third grade in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. In 2007, he went to Jordan for medical treatment He died in August 2009 in Amman, Jordan and was buried in Sulaimani. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and English.

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In 1945, he was a member of the founding committee and political bureau of the Kurdish Liberation Party. In 1946, he participated in the second congress of the Kurdish Liberation Party in Baghdad in order to dissolve himself and join the Kurdish Democratic Party. In 1946, he was secretly elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) (First Congress). In 1946, he was appointed as one of the officials of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Sulaimani In 1957, he was the second secretary of the Iraqi Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and assisted the PKK delegation In 1962, he was the Deputy Ambassador of the Iraqi Republic in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. In 1968, he was a diplomat in the Iraqi Embassy in the city London Appointed Minister of State in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan Baker (1914-1982) on July 31, 1968. On August 12, 1968, he was appointed by a republican decree On August 29, 1968, he was appointed Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs by a republican decree. On September 19, 1968, he was appointed Minister of Labor and Housing by a republican decree Acting appointed (Ahmed Hassan Bakr's cabinet) and on the group share Ibrahim Ahmad - Jalal Talabani.

 On October 26, 1968, he was one of the signatories of the Iraqi delegation to the Joint Defense Agreement between the Republic of Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic On March 29, 1970, he was transferred to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry as an ambassador with the rank of minister of state by a republican decree. On June 7, he was appointed as an ambassador to Iraq In 1970, he was appointed Ambassador of Iraq to the Republic of Italy by a republican decree. In July 1971, he was appointed Ambassador Resident to Albania and Malta, along with the Ambassador to the Republic of Italy He participated in the opening of the legislative assembly for the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in a school in Erbil organized by the Arab Ba'ath Party and delivered a speech in Arabic on Sunday, April 21, 1974 He was appointed vice president by Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan Baker (1914-1982) and served under Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), also known as Saddam Tikrit, until the fall of his regime in On Saturday, October 5, 1974, he opened the first session of the Kurdistan Regional Legislative Council in Erbil, representing Ahmad Hassan Bakr.

On February 27, 1975, he was appointed chairman of the Iraqi High Council of Tourism and Resorts by the Iraqi Revolutionary Leadership Council On Tuesday, July 15, 1975, he was received by Michel Aflaq, Secretary General of the Ba'athist Arab Socialist Party, in Baghdad. In December 1975, he was appointed a member of the High Committee of the National Front. In 1979, he was awarded the Cruzeiro Dossoul National Medal by the Republic of Brazil He was awarded the Grand Grouse in 1981, the Grand Cross by the Republic of Senegal in 1981, the Grand Officers Medal in 1981 by the President of Mali, and in 1982 a member The Revolutionary Leadership Council belonged to the Ba'athist Arab Party. In 2003, he was ranked 42nd on a list of 55 leaders of the Ba'athist Arab Socialist Party authorities who were awarded arrest by the allies He surrendered to the Kurdistan National Union (KNU) forces on Friday, May 2, 2003, after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime He moved to Sulaimani and later lived in Dukani township of Sulaimani province away from the media.

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