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Baathist
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Ba·ath·ist also Ba'ath·ist  (bää-thst)
n.
A member of a pan-Arab socialist political party active principally in Syria and Iraq.

[After the Ba'ath Party, from Arabic ba', revival, from ba'ata, to send, evoke, awaken.]

Baath·ism n.


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While the Ba'athists supported the coup, they soon realized that its new leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, did not seem to plan on sharing power with the Ba'athists.
Despite his public calls for reform, Bashar al-Assad grew up in the confines of his father's Ba'athist system.
Iraq: The Human Cost of History contains seven contributions from a distinguished group of scholars who have all maintained steadfast opposition to both the Ba'athist Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and the imposition and maintenance of draconian economic sanctions against the Iraqi people.
 
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