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MOHAMMED SAID AL-SAHAF

Export controlled · Diplomat · Politician · Sanctioned entity

MOHAMMED SAID AL-SAHAF is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	AL-SAHHAF, Muhammad Said Kazim · MOHAMMED SAID AL-SAHAF · Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf · Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf · Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf · 15 more...				[sources]
Other name	AL-SAHAF, Mohammed Said · Baghdad Bob · Comical Ali · Comical Dunedan · Komiske Ali · 26 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Al-Sahaf · Bagdad-Bob · Bagdadbob · Komik-Ali · Lügen-Ali · 5 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1940-07-30				[sources]
Place of birth	Hillah				[sources]
Death date	2021-03-05				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Iraq				[sources]
Citizenship	Iraq				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Mohammed Said · Muhammad Sa'id · Muhammad Said Kazim				[sources]
Last name	AL-SAHAF · AL-SAHHAF				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q360015				[sources]
Position	Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-2001) · Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research (2001-2003) · Minister of Information of Iraq (2001-2003) · ambassador				[sources]
Education	University of Baghdad				[sources]
Religion	Shia Islam · Twelver Shiism				[sources]
Address	Iraq				[sources]
Source link	sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-08-09	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs;

— US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, 2023-04-20

(also MOHAMMED SAID AL-SAHAF)

— US SAM Procurement Exclusions, 2025-07-23

(also MUHAMMAD SAID KAZIM AL-SAHHAF)

— US SAM Procurement Exclusions, 2025-07-23

Iraqi diplomatic politician and Information Minister

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-06-20

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United States	Office of Foreign Assets Control		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
ambassador	-	-

Data sources

US Trade Consolidated Screening List (CSL)23,257

The Consolidated Screening List (CSL) is a list of parties for which the United States Government maintains restrictions on certain exports, re-exports, or transfers of items.

United States · ITA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,230

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List35,178

The primary United States' sanctions list, specially designated nationals (SDN) part.

United States · OFAC

Taiwan Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List9,854

Entities subject to export restrictions due to concerns about the end-use or end-users, particularly relating to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or other military applications.

Taiwan · MOEA

US SAM Procurement Exclusions105,486

A database of suppliers who have been excluded from participating in US federal procurement.

United States · GSA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,091

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,115

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ofac-8335 · usgsa-s4mr3pb5w · NK-UjJRLNLqfueqrwhBYNsdLt · tw-shtc-5e37d2e446764e805b1f4f6bebed74aaf51c8fc8 · tw-shtc-6440de49ab475e99907fb5cd1a7970d8e76d84e5 · usgsa-s4mr3p1wp

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