Iraqi Islamic Party

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Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) Hizb al-Islami al-Iraqi
Leader	Rashid al-Azzawi
Founded	26 April 1960 (1960-04-26)
Ideology	Islamic democracy Qutbism Pan-Islamism
Political position	Centre-right
Religion	Sunni Islam
National affiliation	Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq
International affiliation	Muslim Brotherhood
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:	0 / 329
Website
www.iraqiparty.org
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The Iraqi Islamic Party is the largest Sunni Islamist political party in Iraq as well as the most prominent member of the Iraqi Accord Front political coalition. It was part of the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and is part of the current government of Haider al-Abadi since 2014. Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti succeeded Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi as the party's secretary-general on 24 May 2009, who was succeeded in July 2011 by Ayad al-Samarrai.^[1]

The IIP evolved out of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and was banned from 1961 during Iraqi nationalist rule, something which continued throughout the reign of the Pan-Arab Ba'ath Party right up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, the IIP's religious rather than ethno-political ideology made the party systematically incompatible under the Iraqi governments between 1961 and 2003.^[2]

During the 1970s, the IIP began operating in exile in Great Britain and published a newspaper called Dar al-Salam. Iyad al-Samara'i was elected to serve as secretary-general.^[2]