Maliki’s coalition calls on the framework for an urgent meeting and the removal of Hezbollah and the Houthis from the list of terrorist organizations.
The State of Law Coalition, led by Nouri al-Maliki, on Thursday called on outgoing Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to reverse the Iraqi government’s decision to classify the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement as “terrorist” organizations, calling on the blocs of the Coordination Framework to raise this issue during their next meeting.
State of Law MP Ibtisam al-Hilali told Shafaq News Agency that “the Iraqi government, headed by caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shabaa al-Sudani, surprises us every day with wrong and incorrect decisions, the latest of which is classifying the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and Yemen as terrorist organizations and freezing their funds.”
She added that “the caretaker government took advantage of the end of the fifth session of the House of Representatives and the absence of the House’s oversight and legislative role, and began issuing wrong and incorrect decisions, such as nominating US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, and classifying the Islamic Resistance as terrorist organizations to please America and its allies.”
Al-Hilali stressed that “the caretaker government must immediately cancel this decision and remove the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and Yemen from the list of terrorism, and not give in to appease America and its allies.”
She stressed that “the leadership of the coordinating framework must discuss this matter at the next meeting and not remain silent about it. If the situation continues as it is, Iraq is heading towards the unknown, as the United States of America and its allies in the region want.”
The Iraqi government’s Committee for Freezing Terrorist Funds had listed the Lebanese Hezbollah and the “Ansar Allah-Houthi” group in Yemen on terrorism lists, in implementation of a package of Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism and its financing, according to what was stated in issue 4848 of the Iraqi Gazette issued on November 17, 2025.
The committee’s decisions are based on the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Law No. 39 of 2015, the Terrorists’ Funds Freezing System No. 6 of 2023, as well as UN resolutions relating to ISIS and Al-Qaeda and the entities and individuals associated with them, in addition to other relevant sanctions systems, which obligate member states to freeze the funds of persons and entities listed on international sanctions lists.
Under the decision, all banks, financial institutions and relevant authorities in Iraq are obligated to freeze the movable and immovable assets belonging to the names included, and to prevent financial or banking dealings with them directly or indirectly, until other decisions are issued that require lifting or amending the freeze, with the amendments to the lists being published in the Official Gazette and the website of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Office.
In this regard, a government official told Shafaq News Agency that the measure comes within the framework of Baghdad’s efforts to align its legal and regulatory system with the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Iraq’s international obligations in the field of combating terrorism and drying up its financial sources, while continuing to update the national lists according to the amendments received from the sanctions committees in the Security Council.
Shafaq.com