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RFL/RE – The US State Department, through its Rewards for Justice Program, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information related to an Iraqi militia commander linked to Iran-backed militias operating in the country.
The official Rewards for Justice account on X posted on April 27 a request for information on Haider M. al-Saidi — sometimes known as Haider Ibrahim al-Gharawi. Al-Saidi is said to be the commander and secretary-general of Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (HAAA), which is considered an Iranian proxy group and is close to the Quds Force, the overseas branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
According to the US State Department message, HAAA was involved in attacks on US diplomatic sites and bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria and “killing US servicemembers.”
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank, wrote in its introduction of this proxy group: “This faction, which branched off from the Sadrist group, is one of the prominent proxy forces supported by the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iraq, which has long been stationed on the Syrian border and has actively participated in the killing of Iraqi protesters to prove its loyalty to Iran.”
