انتقام‌جویی آمریکا از نُجَباء/ دوباره تحریم!

US revenge on al-Nujaba | Sanctions again!

The government of the United States is now trying to put the name of al-Nujaba on its blacklist of terrorist groups, nine years after imposing sanctions on Hujjat al-Islam al-Kaabi.

According to the Communication and Media Affairs Centre of al-‎Nujaba in Iran‎, the name of the al-Nujaba Islamic resistance movement was once again submitted to the United States House of Representatives for inclusion on the United States’ counter-terrorism sanctions list at the same time as the implementation of the sanctions law entitled “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” (CAATSA) against the Islamic Republic of Iran, on November 4, 2017.

Meanwhile, on September 17, 2018, the name of Hujjat al-Islam Akram al-Kaabi, the secretary-general of al-Nujaba, was added to the blacklist by the United States Department of the Treasury under Executive Order No. 13438 with false accusations such as “disturbing the peace and stability of the country and the Iraqi government.”

The American government had accused him of being “the direct perpetrator or supporter of violence against the people, Iraqi politicians and coalition forces.”

Explaining the allegations, Stuart A. Levey, the then-Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, claimed that Hujjat al-Islam al-Kaabi, in addition to targeting and planning attacks against coalition forces and the American military, is involved in acts of violence against American politicians!

An American government website announced at the time that the sanctions order had been pursued on July 17, 2007, by the order of President George W. Bush, adding, “Any transfer between a person specified in Executive Order 13438 is prohibited with American citizens and the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury can confiscate his property.”

Now, nine years after the imposition of sanctions on Hujjat al-Islam al-Kaabi, Ted Poe, the Republican representative of Texas’ second congressional district in the House of Representatives, has once again submitted a bill to the House of Representatives to impose sanctions on al-Nujaba.

He is the chairman of the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, which has always taken hostile positions against the Islamic Republic of Iran and Islamic resistance groups.

The name of Representative Ted Poe is at the forefront of the signatories of many hostile resolutions and he has repeatedly spoken in support of the terrorist group of the Hypocrites (the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran).

Regarding the implementation of the bill, it can be said that it must first be approved by the House of Representatives, then passed by the Senate, and finally signed by the President of the United States.

The usual timeframe for approving the bill is expected to be two to three months, according to which more details will be published.

It should be noted that Samantha Power, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, has recently accused al-Nujaba of participating in the massacre of the people of the Syrian city of Aleppo in a statement to members of the United Nations Security Council, following Washington’s propaganda blackmail.