Taha Muhieddin Maarouf, known as Taha Haji Malla Muhieddin, was elected as a member of the Central Committee in 1946 (at the First Congress). On Friday, May 2, 2003, after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime, he surrendered himself to the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, was detained for a period by the forces of the United States of America, and was later released. After that, he headed to the city of Sulaymaniyah and later lived in the town of Dukan, which is part of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate.

Biography

Taha Muhieddin Maarouf, known as Taha Haji Malla Muhieddin, was born in 1924 in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was from the Murkhozi Hamadani family of the Kurds of Eastern Kurdistan, who migrated from near the city of Hamadan to the city of Sulaymaniyah. In 1946, he was an actor in the play (On the Path of the Homeland), which was performed in the city of Sulaymaniyah, and its proceeds were spent on the victims of the earthquake in the town of Penjwen, which is part of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. In 1948, he received a Bachelor of Law from the College of Law in Baghdad. On May 29, 1955, by a royal decree, his civil service rank in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Iraq was promoted from the first grade in the third class to the third grade in the second class. In 2007, he headed to the Country of Jordan for medical treatment. On August 7, 2009, he passed away in the city of Amman, the capital of Jordan, and was buried in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

Struggle History

In 1945, he was a member of the founding committee and a member of the political bureau of the Rizgari Kurd Party. In 1946, he participated in the Second Congress of the Rizgari Kurd Party in the city of Baghdad for the purpose of dissolving itself and joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and he voted (Yes). In 1946, in a secret atmosphere, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (First Congress). In 1946, he was appointed as one of the officials of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Sulaymaniyah. In 1946, as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he contacted Yusuf Salman Yusuf (1901-1949), known as Fahd, the Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, for the purpose of joint activity. In 1957, he was the Second Secretary of the Iraqi Embassy in the city of Cairo, the capital of the Republic of Egypt, and assisted the delegation of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party in delivering their memorandum to the (Asia-Africa) Peoples' Conference. In Year 1962, he was the Deputy Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in the city of London, the capital of the United Kingdom. In 1968, he was a diplomat at the Iraqi Embassy in the city of London with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary. On July 31, 1968, in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914-1982), he was appointed as Minister of State. On August 12, 1968, by a republican decree, he was appointed as Acting Minister of Agrarian Reform. On August 29, 1968, by a republican decree, he was appointed as Acting Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs. On September 19, 1968, by a republican decree, he was appointed as Acting Minister of Labor and Housing (Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr cabinet) and on the quota of the group of Ibrahim Ahmed - 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 December 13, 1969, by a republican decree, he was appointed as Acting Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs. On March 29, 1970, by a republican decree, he was transferred as an ambassador with the rank of Minister of State to the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On June 7, 1970, by a republican decree, he was made the Ambassador of Iraq to the Republic of Italy. In July 1971, he was appointed as a non-resident ambassador to Albania and Malta, along with being the ambassador to the Republic of Italy. On Saturday, October 5, 1974, he participated in the opening of the Legislative Council for the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in one of the schools in the city of Erbil, which had been organized by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and he delivered a speech in the Arabic language. On Sunday, April 21, 1974, he was appointed as Vice President by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914-1982), the President of Iraq, and he remained in this position during the era of Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), known as Saddam Tikriti, until the fall of his regime in 2003. On Saturday, October 5, 1974, representing Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, he opened the first session of the Legislative Council of the Kurdistan Region in the city of Erbil.

On February 27, 1975, he was appointed by the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq as the head of the Supreme Council for Tourism and Resorts of Iraq. On Monday, October 28, 1974, he was received at the Baghdad Palace by Michel Aflaq (1912–1989), the Secretary-General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. On Tuesday, July 15, 1975, he was received in the city of Baghdad by Michel Aflaq, the Secretary-General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. In January 1975, he was appointed as a member of the Supreme Committee of the Progressive National and Patriotic Front (Al-Jabha al-Wataniyya wa al-Qawmiyya al-Taqaddumiyya). In the year 1979, he was awarded the National Order of the Southern Cross (Cruzeiro do Sul) at the rank of Grand Cross by the Republic of Brazil. In the year 1981, he was awarded the medal of the Grand Cross by the Republic of Senegal. In the year 1981, he was awarded the medal of Grand Officer by the President of Mali. In the year 1982, he was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council affiliated with the Arab Ba'ath Party. In the year 2003, he was ranked 42nd on the list of 55 leaders of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party authorities for whom an arrest warrant had been issued by the Coalition forces. On Friday, May 2, 2003, after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, he surrendered himself to the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and was detained for a period by the United States forces and was later released. After that, he headed to the city of Sulaymaniyah and later lived in the town of Dukan, affiliated with the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, far from the eyes of the media agencies.

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