 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Vakuru vemauto vane hukama neBaath Party vakadzinga Qasim muRamadan Revolution coup yaFebruary 1963. Vatungamiriri veBaathist vakagadzwa muhurumende uye Abdul Salam Arif akava purezidhendi. Arif akadzinga uye akasunga vatungamiriri veBaathist gare gare gore iroro munaNovember 1963 Iraqi coup détat. Ari muEgipita panguva iyoyo, Saddam haana kuita basa mukutonga kwe1963 kana kutsvaira kwehutsinye kwakatevera; kunyangwe akadzokera kuIraq mushure mekutonga, Saddam akaramba ari pamuganhu wehurumende yeBathi ichangobva kuiswa uye aifanira kugutsikana nechinzvimbo chidiki senhengo yehofisi yepakati yeParty yevarimi, mumashoko aEfraim Karsh naInari Rautsi. Kusiyana nemakore aQasim, Saddam akaramba ari muIraq zvichitevera kucheneswa kwaArif kwevaBaathist munaNovember 1963, uye akabatanidzwa mukuronga kuuraya Arif. Kusiyana naQasim, Saddam aiziva kuti aisatarisana nechirango chorufu kubva kuhurumende yaArif uye akazviziva akagamuchira ngozi yekusungwa pane kutizira kuSyria zvakare. Saddam akasungwa muna October 1964 uye akapedza makore anenge maviri ari mutorongo asati atiza muna 1966. Muna 1966, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr akamugadza seMutevedzeri Wemunyori weRegional Command. Saddam, uyo aizobvumikisa kuva murongi ane unyanzvi, akamutsidzira bato racho. Akasarudzwa kuva mukuru mukuru wenharaunda, sezvinonzi nyaya yacho yakaenda, achibatsirwa naMichel Aflaq, muvambi wepfungwa dzeBaathist. Muna September 1966, Saddam akatanga denho inoshamisa mukutonga kweSyria kweBaath Party mukupindura kutora kweMarxist kweSyria Baathpakuvamba gore iroro, zvichiguma nokuparadzaniswa kwepamutemo kwebato kuva mapoka maviri akaparadzana. Saddam akabva asika sangano rokuchengetedza reBaathist, iro iye oga aidzora. 