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The United States Department of Treasury, on Monday, 22 January, announced sanctions on Iraqi airline Fly Baghdad and several members of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah Iraqi militia for allegedly assisting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria and Lebanon. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in a statement, said that Fly Baghdad, along with its CEO Basheer Abdulkadhim Alwan al-Shabbani, was designated for supporting the operations of the IRGC-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and its proxies in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. “For several years, Iraqi…