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The Iraqi resistance groups targeted by US sanctions say the restrictive measures show that their counter-terrorism campaign poses a challenge to the Americans, stressing that the bans will fail to weaken their resolve to protect the homeland and restore its sovereignty.
The Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq and Kata’ib Hezbollah, which are both subdivisions of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi, said on Tuesday that they would remain impervious to the US sanctions.
According to Press TV, a day earlier, the US State Department said it had imposed sanctions on the two Iraqi resistance factions under the so-called Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA), which prohibits arms transfer to those targeted.
Asa’ib Politburo Spokesman Mahmoud al-Rubaie told Lebanon’s al-Ahed news website that the US restrictive measures against resistance groups as “a battle between right and wrong,” saying they represent the extent of the failure that successive US administrations have suffered in West Asia.
The US sanctions did not catch Asa’ib by surprise since the group “expects anything from them (the Americans),” he added. “Whatever they do will not affect us because we are strong.”
Rubaie also said that the United States “is concerned about the political presence of the resistance and is therefore seeking a way to escape … Of course, the [Iraqi] government is also weak and cannot counter US pressure.”
Washington wants a “poor Iraq,” where the youths are jobless, he said.
Similarly, Asa’ib politburo member Ahmad al-Mousavi said that Washington was trying to drive the resistance out of the Iraqi political equation because it had brought about the failure of US schemes in the Arab country.
“US sanctions will not affect the performance of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq and will not remove this resilient Iraqi group from the political scene,” he added.
