Obeidi became the leader of the Iraqi Accord Front parliamentary bloc in May 2009 when the previous leader, Ayad al-Samarrai, became the speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.
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His father and grandfather killed British Colonel Gerard Leachman and played a part in the 1920 revolution against British imperial rule, which was the fiercest in the Shi'ite south, and was a seminal moment of unity between Iraq's Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Kurds that forced the British to allow a form of self-rule.