Independent Middle East specialist; US Treasury sanctions link to Ali Maarej
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Al-Monitor · United States (Washington) · Iraq arrests 47 officials in pre-dawn Green Zone raid, including a deputy oil minister and thirteen MPs
The only outlet to report that Deputy Oil Minister Ali Maarej was placed under US Treasury sanctions in May 2026 for facilitating the diversion of Iraqi oil to Iran and for blending Iranian crude with Iraqi crude using falsified documentation. This gives the arrest a US-partnership dimension absent from other coverage and complicates any Iran-aligned interpretation of the operation.
“Arrested Deputy Oil Minister Maarej was already under US Treasury sanctions for facilitating Iranian oil diversion.”