Tayseer al-Mashhadani

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Tayseer Najah Awad al-Mashhadani is an Iraqi politician. She was elected to the National Assembly of Iraq in December 2005 as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front. She is an engineer by background and a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party

On 1 July she was abducted with 8 of her bodyguards at a checkpoint in the Shiite-majority neighbourhood of Shaab in Eastern Baghdad. Her party accused Shiite militias connected to Muqtada as-Sadr of being behind the abduction, and the Sadrist warlord Abu Dereh has also been accused. After being held for nearly two months, she was released.