Editing Tariq Aziz (section)

=== Iran–Iraq War ===
[[File:President Ronald Reagan and Tariq Aziz.jpg|thumb|[[Ronald Reagan]] hosts Aziz at the White House, 1984|left]]Since Saddam rarely left country, he appointed Aziz as the minister of foreign affairs in 1983. Aziz managed to win support from the United States during the Iran–Iraq War and met then United States president [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984. Aziz accompanied Saddam during a visit on 19–20 December 1983 from [[Donald Rumsfeld]], then [[Ronald Reagan]]'s special envoy to the Middle East. Rumsfeld later became the American Secretary of Defense and led the coalition forces against Iraq in 2003. Aziz also negotiated with France to buy fighter planes and established an economic alliance with the former Soviet Union. In 1988 he traveled to [[Geneva]], Switzerland, to negotiate a treaty to end the Iran-Iraq War.