Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar was a terrorist warlord and the secondary antagonist in Iron Man. As the leader of the Afghan arm of the Ten Rings, he led his men in terrorizing and plundering the region using weapons developed by Stark Industries that had been illegally provided by Obadiah Stane.
History[]
Raza was hired by Obadiah Stane to assassinate Tony Stark. However, after the Ten Rings destroyed Stark's escort convoy and captured him, Raza decided that Stark would be of more use to him alive. He forced Tony to build him a Jericho missile, a weapon that had earlier been demonstrated to the US Army, using materials illicitly acquired through Stane. To Raza's surprise, Stark, with the help of Ho Yinsen, used the materials to build something completely different: a suit of mechanized armour that Stark used to escape his captors. Raza survived Tony's escape effort, but was left with severe scarring on one side of his head.
Fate[]
Later in the film, Obadiah Stane visited Raza's camp in Afghanistan to discuss Iron Man's interference with the Ten Rings' operations in the region. He showed Stane pieces of the Mark I suit that Stark had built while in captivity, found buried in the desert after his escape. Raza offered the remnants of the suit to Stane in exchange that he develop a new line of suits to arm his men. Stane, however, simply took the Mark I after paralyzing Raza with a special device. As he left, he told his bodyguards to "finish up". This was then followed by gunfire just off-screen and it can be safely assumed that Raza was among those who were killed.