Al-Mahameed is a candidate for the Syrian diplomatic mission to Iraq

News reports in Damascus said that the former Syrian ambassador to Sudan Muhammad al-Mahameed was nominated as a chairman of a diplomatic mission in Iraq. This was in contrary to what has been said on the nomination of Muhammad Hussein Tawab, the director of the cultural department at the Syrian foreign ministry for this post.

Al-Mahameed is in his late 60 s. He served as Syria's ambassador in Sudan for nine years and before that he was in the Republic of Yemen.