| Instead, however, he led his army units into and on July 14 launched a against the | Al-Bazzaz was unsuccessful, and was elected president |
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| Qasim refused and was consequently executed | From left to right: , , Arif, and , by a coalition of , army units, and other pan-Arabist groups |
After a fallout with Nasser in July, the Ba'athist government of Iraq removed all non-Ba'athist members from the cabinet, despite Arif's support for Nasser.
28| In the fall of 1964, the Ba'ath attempted to depose Arif, but failed when their plot was unveiled | He played a leading role in the , in which the was overthrown on 14 July 1958 |
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| Although he was chosen as president, more power was held by the Ba'athist prime minister, | Also, all banks and over thirty major Iraqi businesses were nationalized |
Arif refused to take up the post and upon returning to Baghdad on November 4, he was promptly arrested for plotting against the state.
25| Qasim pleaded with Arif to be exiled instead of executed and reminded Arif that he had commuted his death sentence two years before | Death [ ] On 13 April 1966, Arif was killed in the crash of , RF392, in southern Iraq, and was replaced as president by his brother Abdul Rahman |
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| Rafal Alkadiry, their 22-year-old son, was kidnapped, and later killed |
Like Qasim, Arif served with distinction in the otherwise unsuccessful 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, where he captured Jenin in what is now the West Bank part of Palestine.
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