Dems Back Measure to Give Aid to Iraqi Militia Groups Tied to Iran
22nd September 2021
Democratic leaders in the House are backing a measure to provide U.S. assistance to Iraqi militia groups that are known to be dominated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
A Democrat-led amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the sprawling annual bill that funds U.S. military operations around the world, would permit U.S. funding for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, a confederation of militia groups that work alongside the corps’s Quds Force, Iran’s paramilitary fighting brigade.
The amendment, authored by Rep. Brad Sherman (D., Calif.), was slipped into a larger package of measures that are backed by Democratic leadership and expected to easily pass into the larger National Defense Authorization Act, which is set to be finalized this week.