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Tag: Popular Mobilization Units

Iraqi PM dragging his feet on disbanding militias

by Hussain Abdul-Hussain October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, last month called for the disbanding of all militias. This would involve the state disarming the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Units (PMU). In turn, this would neuter Tehran’s most reliable partner in Iraq, Kataeb Hezbollah, the most dangerous alternative to state power in the country. Such then is the […]

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