The Ramadan Revolution, also referred to as the 8 February Revolution and the February 1963 coup d'tat in Iraq, was a military coup by the Ba'ath Party's Iraqi-wing which overthrew the Prime Minister of Iraq, Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1963. It took place between 8 and 10 February 1963. Qasim's former deputy, Abdul Salam Arif, who was not a Ba'athist, was given the largely ceremonial title of President, while prominent Ba'athist general Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was named Prime Minister. The most powerful leader of the new government was the secretary general of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, Ali Salih al-Sa'di, who controlled the National Guard militia and organized a massacre of hundredsif not thousandsof suspected communists and other dissidents following the coup.The government lasted approximately nine months, until Arif disarmed the National Guard in the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'tat, which was followed by a purge of Ba'ath Party members.

The prime minister of Iraq is the head of government of Iraq. On 7 May 2020, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi became the incumbent prime minister after Adil Abdul-Mahdi resigned.