The Ministry affirmed, that it“would proceed carefully with the current and new US administration the US Treasury decisions against Iraqi figures."
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on the Iraqi leader and former national security adviser, connecting him to human rights abuses during the 2019 anti-government demonstrations in which hundreds of protesters were killed.
The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement it was blacklisting Falih al-Fayyadh, chairman of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Committee (PMC).
The Treasury accused him of being part of a crisis cell formed in late 2019 to suppress protests.
Washington said al-Fayyadh was the head of the PMC when forces under its command fired live ammunition at peaceful protesters in 2019, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
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