The US Congress approved in its majority on Friday to renew the law of “Preventing Destabilization of Iraq”. Days earlier, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on four Iraqi figures: two of them are leaders in the Popular Mobilization Forces and the two others are former governors of Nineveh. While Baghdad has set up a special committee to look in the US Treasury Department decision, the Central Bank of Iraq froze the accounts of the four officials who have had US sanctions imposed on them, in an implied approval by the government. Former Iraqi Minister of Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani wondered in a tweet whether this is a new mandate or a decision to make Iraq a conflict zone for neighboring countries. The president shall impose sanctions against a foreign person that intends to conduct violent acts to impact the peace and stability in Iraq. The US Secretary of State would also be responsible for annual preparation and renewal via publishing the list of militias, armed groups or forces in proxy in Iraq receiving logistics, financial or military support from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In this context, Professor at al-Nahrain University Hussein Allawi told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the law falls within the US support to Iraq to maintain its security and stability. Security expert Saeed al-Jayashi told the newspaper, however, that the law brings the country back to the direct US impact under a political regime structure. This law is more dangerous than “The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998” passed on by the Congress, he added.