Editing Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (section)

==Politics==
[[Image:Abdul Aziz al-Hakim at Iraqi election, 2005Jan30.jpg|thumb|right|Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, casts his ballot at a poll station in Baghdad in the January, 2005 election.]]
SIIC is a Shia Islamist political party that is widely regarded as one of the most pro-Iranian parties in Iraq. SIIC's support is strongest in Iraq's south especially [[Basra]], where it has been said to have become "the de facto government."<ref name="Nasr, Vali 2006 p.194">Nasr, Vali, ''The Shia Revival'', (Norton, 2006), p.194</ref>

It joined the [[United Iraqi Alliance]] list for the general election on January 30, 2005 (see [[January 2005 Iraqi legislative election|Iraqi legislative election, 2005]]), but filed separate lists in some governorate council elections held on the same day (see for instance [[2005 Nineveh governorate election]]). In the January 2005 election it won six out of eight Shia-majority governorates and came in first in Baghdad with 40% of the vote.<ref name="Nasr, Vali 2006 p.194" /> Following the election SIIC had many members hired by various government ministries, particularly the Interior Ministry, "ensuring a favorable position for" it.<ref name="Nasr, Vali 2006 p.194" />
 
Its administration in Southern Iraq has been criticized as corrupt and as "theocracy mixed with thuggery"<ref>[https://archive.today/20070107194758/http://search.csmonitor.com/2005/0713/p01s01-wome.htm Steven Vincent, "Shiites Bring Reigid Piety to Iraq's South"], ''Christian Science Monitor'', July 13, 2005</ref> According to a 2005 report by journalist Doug Ireland, the Badr Organization has been involved in many incidents of attacking and killing [[homosexuality|gays]] in Iraq.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/03/shia_death_squa.html |title=DIRELAND|access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> According to the British television Channel 4, from 2005 through early 2006, SIIC's [[Badr Organization]] members working as commandos in the Ministry of the Interior (which Badr controls) "have been implicated in rounding up and killing thousands of ordinary Sunni civilians."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/dispatches/article.jsp?id=301|title=Dispatches|publisher=Channel 4|access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref>

Ideologically SIIC differs from [[Muqtada al-Sadr]] and its sometime ally [[Islamic Dawa Party]], in favoring a decentralized Iraq state with an autonomous Shia zone in the south.<ref>Nasr, Vali, ''The Shia Revival'', (Norton, 2006), p.195</ref>

===2009 governorate elections===
During the [[2009 Iraqi governorate elections]] ISCI ran under the name ''al-Mehrab Martyr List'', the ISCI did not perform as well as they hoped to, winning 6.6% of vote and 52 out of 440 seats. They did however come second in the election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID%3D75%26id%3D2395%26lang%3D0 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-02-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012021158/http://www.niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID=75&id=2395&lang=0 |archive-date=2011-10-12 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uniraq.org/documents/ElectoralMaterial/IHEC_Preliminary%20Results_Governorate%20Council%20Elections_2009_EN.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-04-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326080849/http://www.uniraq.org/documents/ElectoralMaterial/IHEC_Preliminary%20Results_Governorate%20Council%20Elections_2009_EN.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-national-alliance-and-other.html|title=MUSINGS ON IRAQ|author=Joel Wing|date=24 August 2009|access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref>

{| class=wikitable style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f8f8f8; padding:0px; font-size:90%;"
|-
!Governorate
!Percentage
!Seats won
!Total seats
|-
|[[Al Anbar Governorate|Al Anbar]] || - ||0||29
|-
|[[Babil Governorate|Babil]] || 8.2% || 5  || 30
|-
|[[Baghdad Governorate|Baghdad]] || 5.4% || 3  || 57
|-
|[[Basra Governorate|Basra]] || 11.6% || 5  || 35
|-
|[[Dhi Qar Governorate|Dhi Qar]] || 11.1% || 5  || 31
|-
|[[Diyala Governorate|Diyala]] || - || 0 || 29
|-
|[[Karbala Governorate|Karbala]] || 6.4% || 4  || 27
|-
|[[Maysan Governorate|Maysan]] || 15.2% || 7  || 27
|-
|[[Muthanna Governorate|Muthanna]] || 9.3% || 5  || 26 
|-
|[[Najaf Governorate|Najaf]] || 14.8% || 7  || 28
|-
|[[Nineveh Governorate|Nineveh]] || 1.9% || 0 || 37
|-
|[[al-Qadisiyyah Governorate|al-Qadisiyyah]] || 11.7% || 4  || 28
|-
|[[Saladin Governorate|Saladin]] || 2.9% || 1  || 28 
|-
|[[Wasit Governorate|Wasit]] ||  10.0% || 6  || 28
|-
||'''Total'''
|6.6%
|52
|440
|-
|}