{"id":1687063,"date":"2022-10-12T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687063"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:22:22","slug":"iraqi-official-with-alleged-ties-to-iranian-terror-proxies-granted-entry-to-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iraqi-official-with-alleged-ties-to-iranian-terror-proxies-granted-entry-to-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Official With Alleged Ties to Iranian Terror Proxies Granted Entry to United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firaqi-official-with-alleged-ties-to-iranian-terror-proxies-granted-entry-to-united-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687063&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An Iraqi official with alleged ties to the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies traveled this week to the United States for high-level meetings amid a global energy crisis that has sent oil prices skyrocketing.<\/p>\n<p>Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, Iraq\u2019s oil minister and acting finance minister, is listed as an official Iraqi government participant for World Bank meetings scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C., according to a list of participants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/content\/dam\/meetings\/external\/annualmeeting-1\/Participant%20List%20AM22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> by the organization. He is also expected to hold meetings with Biden administration officials, according to sources familiar with the matter. A coalition of Republican lawmakers want to know why the Biden administration is &#8220;roll[ing] out the red carpet&#8221; for Ismail and how he was able to obtain a U.S. visa.<\/p>\n<p>Three Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress are pressuring the Biden administration to reconsider engaging with Ismail, citing his alleged ties to Iran\u2019s terrorist regime and the country\u2019s efforts to evade U.S. economic sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Under Ismail\u2019s leadership, Iraq\u2019s State Oil Marketing Organization &#8220;has a track record of business dealings with Iran, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Iranian-backed terrorist organizations Asa\u2019ib ahl al-Haq and Katai\u2019b Hezbollah,&#8221; Reps. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), and Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) wrote on Wednesday to the White House, according to a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10.12.2022-Letter_Iraq-Min-of-Oil-Visit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. The lawmakers say it is inappropriate for the United States to host an official believed to be enabling the Iranian regime\u2019s global terrorism enterprise, particularly amid mass protests in Iran that threaten to topple the hardline government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe Biden publicly criticized Italy\u2019s new conservative prime minister, but his administration is happy to roll out the red carpet for criminally corrupt officials with ties to Iranian terrorists,&#8221; Banks, head of the Republican Study Committee, Congress\u2019s largest Republican caucus, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;There is no low the Biden administration won\u2019t stoop to for its disastrous proposed Iran deal and to avoid investing in American energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A State Department spokesman would not comment on the status of Ismail\u2019s visa or the issue raised by members of Congress, telling the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi official with alleged ties to the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies is scheduled to travel this week to the United States for high-level meetings amid a global energy crisis that has sent oil prices skyrocketing.<br \/>\nThe post Iraqi Official With Alleged Ties to Iranian Terror Proxies Granted Entry to United States appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}