Washington threatens to impose sanctions on Iraqi militias

Rubeir al-Fares

The U.S. State Department threatened to impose sanctions on some Iraqi militias.

It said the U.S. would take all the necessary measures to protect its embassies and diplomatic missions.

It noted that some militias, funded by other countries, target Iraqi institutions and Iraqi citizens.

The State Department added that it would continue to coordinate at the security level with Iraqi security forces against these militias.

It said the U.S. would continue to be present in Iraq and that it would have to take the necessary measures to protect its embassies.

Samuel Werberg, the Director of the Dubai Regional Media Hub, said the U.S. would continue to have good relations with Iraqis.

He said he lived in Iraq between 2009 and 2019 and saw the violence of the country’s militias himself.

I am, he said, aware of the challenges and dangers facing us and our embassy in Iraq.

However, he noted that the U.S. would continue to have good relations with the Iraqi people because the people deserve these relations.

Meanwhile, Chairman of al-Hal Party, Jamal al-Karbouli, accused Iraq’s militias of killing civilians and breaking the law.

“They destroyed the cities and forced their residents to leave them,” Karbouli said. “They put youth in prison, humiliated elderly people and killed children,” he wrote on Twitter.

He noted that the militias shell the houses of civilians and are only deterred by threats made by the U.S.

“This happens in a country where the law is broken a thousand times every day,” Karbouli said. “Sorry to say, the government stands hand-tied in front of all this.”