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Dr Iyad Allawi (اياد علاوي) (born 1945) is an Iraqi politician, and was the interimPrime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections.

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A prominent Iraqi-British neurosurgeon and Iraqi exile political activist, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which was established by U.S.-led coalition authorities following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He became Iraq's first head of government since Saddam Hussein when the council dissolved on June 1, 2004 and named him Prime Minister of the Iraqi Interim Government. His term as Prime Minister ended on April 7, 2005, after the selection of Islamic Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari by the newly-elected transitional Iraqi National Assembly.

He continues to lead his Iraqi National Accord's party in the new Assembly, though its support was weak during legislative elections, and