Vice President of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council
Iraq
Deputy leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) and Secretary General of the Al-Mihrab Martyr Foundation. As a son of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the prominent Iraqi Shiite leader, he is now considered the heir apparent to replace his father. His family and the party they founded (SIIC) have the close ties both to Washington and Iran. He was educated in the Islamic seminaries of Iran, where his family fled in 1979 to escape Saddam's persecution.