{"id":34359,"date":"2019-03-06T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34359"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:25:01","slug":"us-sanctions-nujaba-militia-backed-by-iran-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34359","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Nujaba militia backed by Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1462122\/middle-east\" readability=\"57\">\n<p>\nWASHINGTON: The US has sanctioned Harakat Hezbollah al Nujaba, a radical\u00a0militia group of about 10,0000 fighters, as well as its leader Akram Kaabi, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\nActive in Iraq and Syria, Nujaba, which is known by various names including the \u201cThe Movement of the Noble Ones,\u201d is also loyal to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\nReuters reported in 2017 that it was helping Tehran create a supply route through Iraq to Damascus, and its leaders have publicly acknowledged Iran\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\nWashington\u2019s concerns about the group are growing.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn September Republican Senators David Perdue, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio introduced the Iranian Proxies Terrorist Sanctions Act targeting it and another group. A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives in January then introduced companion legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\nKaabi is a cleric who was sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2008 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The US has sanctioned Harakat Hezbollah al Nujaba, a radical\u00a0militia group of about 10,0000 fighters, as well as its leader Akram Kaabi, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday. Active in Iraq and Syria, Nujaba, which is known by various names including the \u201cThe Movement of the Noble Ones,\u201d is also loyal to Iran. Reuters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}