Iran-backed militias within the Coordination Framework are leading the call to criminalize alternative lifestyles and celebrating the murder of a queer Iraqi through their social media platforms.
Nouri al-Maliki is gathering various Iraqi resistance figures who fought both Saddam and the coalition, but this marginal old timer party is not the same as Kataib Hezbollah, which has yet to show its hand in parliamentary politics.
On April 30, 2021, former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law list announced that it will participate in Iraq s planned October general election as a coalition of eight parties. Two of these parties include the term Hezbollah in their names: Kawader Hezbollah al-Qudama (Old-Timer Hezbollah Cadres, or KHQ), and Hezbollah al-Iraq (Iraqi Party of God, or HI). Though widely assumed to represent the top Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah (KH), these parties actually comprise