Washington removes the name of an Iraqi with 12 titles from its sanctions list.
Washington removes the name of an Iraqi with 12 titles from its sanctions list.
2026-05-29
Shafaq News – Washington
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Thursday evening that it had lifted sanctions on 76 entities and individuals who were on old sanctions lists, including an Iraqi citizen whose name appeared in various forms in the department’s records.
This move came as part of an initiative to modernize the US sanctions system, a trend discussed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bisent during the “No Money for Terror” conference held in the French capital, Paris.
The US Treasury explained in its statement , which was reviewed by Shafaq News Agency, that the review included removing restrictions on deceased individuals, ships that were dismantled or taken out of service, as well as people who were previously classified as part of illicit financial networks that no longer exist, or others who were listed more than a decade ago without sufficient identifying data to continue scrutinizing them.
According to Treasury Department documents, the updated list included a prominent Iraqi citizen named Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidi, who was born in Mosul, the center of Nineveh Governorate, and is known by the nicknames “Abu Ghadiya” and “Abu Abdullah”.
The lifting of restrictions on him came after his name and titles appeared in 12 different forms in previous lists to avoid merging identities.
The list also included the removal of other names and companies belonging to multiple nationalities, including Colombia, Algeria, Mexico, the Philippines, Burma and Germany.
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