Samson: US sanctions threaten 67 Iraqi politicians and parliamentary moves to issue a resolution condemning them
25th July 2019
The head of the parliamentary finance committee, Haitham al-Jubouri, revealed leaks that talk about the inclusion of 67 new Iraqi political figures with US sanctions while referring to the American intention to issue other lists of sanctions.
This comes a week after sanctions imposed by the US Treasury on four prominent Iraqi leaders, including two leaders of the “popular crowd.” He said Jubouri, “The Committee is waiting for the arrival of indicators and evidence on corruption and money laundering by the American side, to begin an investigation with politicians covered by sanctions.
For his part, said a member of the Committee on Security and Defense parliamentary, in an interview with the new Arab newspaper, “Leaders in the popular mobilization has been moving for days, towards the Committee and the parliamentary blocs, in order to issue a resolution condemning US sanctions.”
He added that “some of the deputies of the Fatah Alliance began a campaign to collect signatures on this matter,” noting that “the presence of another team within the Security Committee and the rest of the components of Parliament, calling for the wait and demand Washington to provide evidence on any person imposed sanctions.
In the same context, warned the head of the “Badr parliamentary bloc” Hassan al-Kaabi, the Americans from what he described as a strong position in the event included leaders of the “popular crowd” sanctions, or criminalized factions of the “crowd,” explaining in a press statement that the parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, , Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, are required to adopt a position that takes into account concerns that senior “crowd” leaders may be sanctioned.
“America is seeking to play with fire, dragging the popular crowd to strike it to have a pretext for taking new measures in the UN, and Iraq is under its control,” al-Kaabi said.
Last Thursday, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on former Nineveh governors Nawfal al-Aakoub, former Salahuddin Ahmed al-Jubouri (Abu Mazen), and the leader of the popular Babylonian clergy Rayyan Chaldean, For human rights and corruption, in a fourth step of its kind targeting Iraqi individuals in less than a year. LINK
