Narmin Othman

{{Short description|Iraqi minister for Environmental in the Nouri al-Maliki Government}}

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Narmin Othman (born c.1948, Arabic: نيرمين عثمان; Kurdish Nermîn Osman) is the Iraqi Minister for the Environment in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, a post she also held in the Iraqi Transitional Government. She was Minister of Women's Affairs in the Iraqi Interim Government and a Minister of Education in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region from 1992.{{cn|date=February 2021}}

She escaped an assassination attempt in August 2005 when gunmen attacked her convoy [http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/08/23/61578.html Iraqi Minister attacked in Baghdad is safe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060325005342/http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/08/23/61578.html |date=2006-03-25 }}, News from Russia

Her family were active in the Kurdish peshmerga who fought Saddam Hussein who had her uncle and brother-in-law executed. Her husband (Daro Sheikh Noori) was imprisoned for five years where he was tortured.[http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_07-03-2005/featured_0 Parade] She and her husband went into exile in Sweden in 1984, returning to Iraq in 1992. Her husband was a PUK Politburo member, who died in 2004, the same year that she was offered a post in the national government.