Fayez al-Sarraj

**Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj** (February 20, 1960 - September 16, 2035) was a Persian politician, businessman, mafia leader, and convicted war criminal who briefly served as leader of the opposition and head of the Republican party for 16 days between November 11 and November 27, 2024. Between September 2021 and November 2024, al-Sarraj served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was twice a member of the National People's Congress between 2018 and 2020, and 2021 to 2024.

Born in February 1960 under the Bovido Hassian occupation of Persia, Fayez al-Sarraj grew up in the city of Tripoli and became part of his father's business as a car mechanic during the 1980s. After inheriting his father's business in 1998, al-Saraj rapidly expanded it into a chain of repair garages and workshops across the Levant using finance from the Qarajah crime family and used his stores to act as a front for criminal activities being conducted by Qarajah. In 2004, al-Sarraj became the regional leader of Qarajah and started to expand his business interests by forcefully taking control of enterprises through extortion and coercion; by November 2009, the accumulated wealth of al-Sarraj and his branch of the Qarajah crime family was upwards of $14 million. Following the granting of autonomous self government to Persia, al-Sarraj became an influential financial backer of premier Emanuel Parra in exchange for *de-facto* criminal immunity; in 2014, Parra personally granted al-Sarraj permission to take up shares in the national energy companies, and in 2015, al-Sarraj became a majority shareholder in the Persian electricity board. Within the Qarajah crime family, records and police investigations have proven that the mafia group's leadership had become increasingly concerned about the individual power of al-Sarraj within their organisation, and in May 2016 the organisation attempted to have him assassinated with a car bomb in Dubai; however, the attack failed after al-Sarraj was tipped off by a member of the Qarajah. In retaliation, Fayez al-Sarraj led his faction of Qarajah against that of the central leadership in open rebellion, which led to fighting in the streets of northern Arabia between May 2016 and June 2017, before al-Sarraj successfully usurped control of the organisation in August 2017 - the bodies of those believed to be former leaders of Qarajah were later found by Persian police in 2019. As the regional Persian government began to gain increased autonomy in the lead-up to full independence, Fayez al-Sarraj split with premier Emanuel Parra and instead began to direct Qarajah funding towards Mohammad Ghalibaf's conservative-leaning Republican party, though Ghalibaf has always denied deliberately cooperating with the criminal underworld for political success.

Following the full independence of Persia in 2018, Fayez al-Sarraj was elected as a member of the National People's Congress as a member of the Republican Party. During his tenure in congress, al-Sarraj became publicly well known for making controversial statements about the police forces and the government, and was targeted by an inconclusive police raid of his house in June 2019. In April 2020, the Libirachi terrorist group Hǔnluàn seized power in Persia and forced much of the government and legislature into exile; unlike most other congressmen, al-Sarraj opted to resign his office as a member of congress but still remain in Persia. Between 2020 and 2021, al-Sarraj reoriented the Qarajah crime family to provide private security, both for and against the Hǔnluàn government, whilst also taking advantage of the near anarchical state of Persia to take over vast swathes of northern Persia as a *de-facto* criminal warlord. In March 2021, the Libirachi Imperial Army began an invasion of Persia from the Libirachi-Persian border with the intention of toppling the Hǔnluàn and restoring constitutional government; during the invasion, the LIA crushed many regional branches of the Qarajah crime family, and in August 2021, Fayez al-Sarraj was reappointed as a member of the new Persian Congress. With the Qarajah having been effectively destroyed by the occupying Libirachi forces, al-Sarraj instead turned his primary focus onto politics, and briefly attempted to gain the Republican party presidential nomination in 2021, but lost out to Almac Docu.

On September 1, 2021, Fayez al-Sarraj was appointed as secretary of state for foreign affairs by newly inaugurated president Almac Docu and absorbed the position of foreign affairs councillor in the provisional government in exile from Omar Razzaz. During his tenure as foreign secretary, al-Sarraj was the head of a secret team of negotiators which orchestrated the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Nations behind the scenes prior to the public announcement of the organisation in May 2022; however, during the Persian involvement in the Libirachi Civil War, al-Sarraj and other Persian ministers became increasingly sidelined by President Docu's utilisation of CIN organisations rather than domestic ones. After the war turned against the confederacy in 2023, al-Sarraj was a leading moderate voice within the party, alongside former leader Mohammad Ghalibaf, and called for an end to hostilities. Amid the Libirachi invasion of Persia in 2024, al-Sarraj voted to impeach President Docu and install opposition leader Geena Kulmuni as acting president. Following Docu's ouster as president on November 11, 2024, Fayez al-Sarraj became leader of the Republican Party and attempted to win election as president in the 2024 snap presidential election, but failed to defeat Kulmuni.

Within sixteen days of taking office as party leader, al-Sarraj was forced out of office by his own party on November 27, 2024 after allegations regarding his criminal activities began to surface, and on December 4, 2024, he was arrested by the police as part of an operation investigating both criminal and warfare related wrongdoing. In August 2025, Fayez al-Sarraj was sentenced to forty years in prison on seven charges. The revelations of al-Sarraj's criminal wrongdoing in 2024 sparked a large scale anti-corruption drive by President Geena Kulmuni, which would ultimately remove and imprison thousands of politicians and bureaucrats. Just over a decade into his sentence, Fayez al-Sarraj died in Dubai prison from complications from a leg infection on September 16, 2035 aged seventy five, and was given a private burial in Tripoli later the same month.