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Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein

Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein is the claimant to the Iraqi throne and the leader of the Constitutional Monarchy Movement.

His cousin was the last king of Iraq who was killed and deposed in a bloody coup d'etat. Following the regicide al-Hussein and his family fled to the United Kingdom. Al-Hussein remained an opponent of the rule of dictator Saddam Hussein (no relation) and returned to Iraq after his downfall.