| Muhammad Mahdi Salih | |
| Office1: | Minister of Trade |
| Term Start1: | 1987 |
| Term End1: | 9 April 2003 |
| Predecessor1: | Hassan Ali[1] [2] |
| Successor1: | Mohammed Al-Jubouri (interim)[3] |
| President1: | Saddam Hussein |
| Office2: | Chief of the Presidential Office |
| Term Start2: | ~1980s |
| Term End2: | 1987 |
| President2: | Saddam Hussein |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Birth Date: | 1947 or 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Rawa, Al-Anbar, Iraq |
| Party: | Iraqi Ba'ath Party |
| Nationality: | Iraqi |
Mohammad Mahdi Salih Al-Rawi is an Iraqi politician who was Trade Minister in the government of President Saddam Hussein.[4] He was the Minister of Finance from 1989 to 1991.[5]
Salih was born between 1947 and 1949 in Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq.[6] He was the Chief of Saddam Hussein's Presidential Office in the mid-1980s and then became Minister of Trade from 1987 until the downfall of Hussein.[6] In October 1995, the United States listed al Salih as a Designated Individual under their programme of sanctions against Iraq.[7]
Following the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States distributed a deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, which included al-Saleh as the "six of hearts".[4] His assets were frozen under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 as a former official.[6] He was taken into custody by the US on 23 April 2003.[8] He was held by the US military at Camp Cropper, a base just outside Baghdad.[9] In July 2010, seven years after his capture, he was handed over to the custody of the Iraq government.[10]
In 2011 he was found innocent of charges against him and in March 2012 he was released by the Iraqi authorities and immediately left the country.[4]
Following the 2013 Al Anbar governorate election, Salih was rumoured to be a candidate supported by the Uniters List for the position of Governor of Anbar.[11] [12] The Uniters List later denied the rumours.[13] In 2014 he was living in Amman, Jordan.