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Advisor of National Security Council
Falih Faisal Fahad Al-Fayyadh
(
Arabic
:
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; born 1956) is an
Iraqi
politician, former head and advisor of the
National Security Council
,
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and currently the chairman of the
Popular Mobilization Forces
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He is also the founder of the
Ataa Movement
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Biography
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Al-Fayyadh was born on 27 March 1956 in
Baghdad
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He received his
bachelor's degree
in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Mosul
in 1977. He is the Chairman of the
Popular Mobilization Forces
and the Chairman and Founder of the
Ataa Movement
. Until July 2020, Al-Fayyadh was the Iraqi Prime Minister’s National Security Advisor.
On 8 January 2021, the
U.S. Treasury Department
sanctioned Al-Fayyadh for "his connection to serious human rights abuse", and addressed his role in the violent repression of
Iraqi protests
beginning in October 2019. During the protests,
Iranian-backed militias
, headed by Al-Fayyadh, used marksmen to fire live bullets, hot water and
tear gas
against anti-government protesters, leading to many deaths and injuries. The sanction was based on the
Global Magnitsky Act
and resulted in Al-Fayyadh being placed on
Office of Foreign Assets Control
's
SDN List
.
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