| The former supported a union with the UAR —composed of and —under president , but the latter opposed merging with the UAR | Arif had the conspirators, including , arrested |
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| became acting president for three days, and a power struggle for the presidency occurred | Although he was chosen as president, more power was held by the Ba'athist prime minister, |
Qasim formed a government under the newly proclaimed republic and Arif, his chief aide, was appointed deputy prime minister, interior minister, and deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
| Fouad Ajami 2006 , , University Press of Florida,• In the fall of 1964, the Ba'ath attempted to depose Arif, but failed when their plot was unveiled | On 14 July the anniversary of the revolution, he declared the establishment of the ASU of Iraq, commending it as the "threshold of the building of the unity of the under |
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| Also, all banks and over thirty major Iraqi businesses were nationalized | President Arif played a major role in Iraq construction and developing its infrastructure |
On 18 November Arif, with the support of disaffected elements in the military, took advantage of a split between the Ba'ath—which weakened the party—and ousted their members from the government.
| " It was nearly identical in structure the ASU of Egypt and like in Egypt, many of the Arab nationalist parties were dissolved and absorbed by the ASU | Despite this, in July 1965, the Nasserist ministers resigned from the Iraqi cabinet |
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| Qasim had him released in November 1961 | Al-Bazzaz was unsuccessful, and was elected president |
Ismael; Kamal Abu Jaber 1991 , , Simon and Schuster,• In the first meeting of the Defense Council and cabinet to elect a president, Al-Bazzaz needed a two-thirds majority to win the presidency.
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