Harakat al-Nujaba official threatens to target US interests and energy facilities

BAGHDAD — A military aide within Harakat al-Nujaba threatened Sunday to target U.S. interests, bases and energy facilities across the region early Tuesday, April 7, warning there are “absolutely no red lines.”

Abdul Qader al-Karbalai said on X that “all U.S. interests, bases, and energy facilities in the region will be legitimate targets for the resistance,” adding that operations would proceed as part of “a path of victory or martyrdom.”

The threat comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has set a Tuesday deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening strikes on Iranian infrastructure if it does not comply. The coincidence of the militia’s stated timeline with Trump’s deadline suggests the threat is directly tied to anticipated U.S. military action against Iran.

Harakat al-Nujaba is under the Islamic Resistance in Iraq umbrella, a loose network of Iran-aligned armed groups that has claimed responsibility for numerous drone and rocket attacks on U.S. forces and interests in Iraq, the Kurdistan Region and neighboring countries since the regional war began Feb. 28.