Ahmed Obeidi

Ahmed Riad Obeidi is an Iraqi independent politician and a former Youth & Sport Minister in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.^[1][2] He was proposed by the al-Hal movement and approved by the Council of Representatives on 24 October 2018.^[1][3]

Just two weeks after his approval, the Accountability and Justice Commission, which vets officials, wrote to parliament to notify them that they had concerns about Obedi.^[4] There were claims that he was a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.^[5]