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Iraq in the FARA records

Every contract between an Iraqi party and a lobbying or public-relations agent in the United States, as registered with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), from its first appearance in 1945 to today. This page shows the classification and the aggregate figures; the contracts, documents, payments and contacts in full are in a separate locked wing, available on request.

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128contractual relationships (21 active)

112U.S. agents by registration number

1,241original documents indexed

3,759documented contacts with U.S. officials and media

Declared fees by period

Million dollars · agents’ fees, excluding the KRG office budget

1990–19940.2

1995–19990.1

2000–20041.3

2005–20092.2

2010–20142.2

2015–20192.3

2020–20244.8

2025–20291.9

Total: 15.1 million dollars. The operating budget of the KRG office in Washington: 38.7 million dollars.

Relationships by category

Federal government37

Kurdistan Region39

Parties and blocs19

Individuals15

Businesses and institutions10

Communities6

Local government2

Relationships by era

The monarchy4

Republic 1958–19682

Baath era 1968–200315

CPA and Governing Council 2003–200510

Jaafari 2005–20063

Maliki 2006–201429

Abadi 2014–201826

Abdul-Mahdi 2018–20206

Kadhimi 2020–202210

Sudani 2022–23

Contacts by institution

Congress1,143

Media789

Other741

Executive branch725

Think tanks361

Classification

Seven categories, then the agent, then the documents

Federal government 37 Kurdistan Region 39 Parties and blocs 19 Individuals 15 Businesses and institutions 10 Communities 6 Local government 2

01 Federal government

Embassy, Prime Minister’s office, ministries, intelligence, parliament · 37 relationships

Year	Iraqi party	U.S. agent	Status	ID
2026	Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq	Bakr Assad Ali	Active	FARA-7748-002
2024	Embassy of the Republic of Iraq	Sarafa, Michael Gregory	Ended	FARA-7362-017
2024	The Embassy of the Republic of Iraq to the United States	Valcour, LLC	Ended	FARA-7373-014
2024	The Embassy of the Republic of Iraq to the United States	Squire Patton Boggs, LLP	Ended	FARA-2165-015
2024	The Embassy of the Republic of Iraq to the United States (through Valcour, LLC)	Bridgeway Advocacy, LLC	Ended	FARA-7374-013
2022	Embassy of the Republic of Iraq	Cogent Strategies LLC	Ended	FARA-6927-028
2022	Iraqi Ministry of Oil	Vinson & Elkins LLP	Ended	FARA-7142-024
2022	Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP	Ended	FARA-6964-026
2021	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Republic of Iraq	Livingston Group, LLC	Ended	FARA-6344-029
2019	Embassy of Iraq	Gibson, Thomas F. / G.83 LLC	Ended	FARA-6678-037
2018	Embassy of the Republic of Iraq	Holly Strategies Incorporated	Active	FARA-6605-039
2017	Embassy of the Republic of Iraq	Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP	Ended	FARA-5870-048
2017	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Republic of Iraq	Livingston Group, LLC	Ended	FARA-6344-043
2014	Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS)	IFCG, Inc	Ended	FARA-6267-062
2013	Republic of Iraq	Podesta Group, Inc.	Ended	FARA-5926-071
2012	Government of Iraq	Iraqi Center for Development	Ended	FARA-6084-073
2008	Government of the Republic of Iraq Office of the Prime Minister	Maggs & McDermott LLC, Attorneys at Law	Ended	FARA-5845-086
2007	Republic of Iraq	Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP	Ended	FARA-5842-087
2006	Iraqi Government	Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations	Ended	FARA-5768-093
2005	Embassy of the Republic of Iraq	BKSH & Associates	Ended	FARA-5402-096
2004	Baqir S. Jabor, Minister of Housing and Construction, Republic of Iraq	Livingston Group, LLC	Ended	FARA-5356-102
2004	Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Iraq	Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, LLP	Ended	FARA-508-099
2004	Rend Al-Rahim Representative of the Iraqi Governing Council (Amb. - Des.)	Clark & Weinstock	Ended	FARA-5617-101
2004	Republic of Iraq	White & Case, LLP	Ended	FARA-2759-098
2003	Dr. Ayad Allawi	Theros & Theros, LLP	Ended	FARA-5581-106
2003	Dr. Ayad Allawi - through Theros & Theros, LLP	Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, LLP	Ended	FARA-5583-104
2003	Dr. Ayad Allawi - through Theros & Theros, LLP	Brown Lloyd James, Ltd.	Ended	FARA-5582-105
1990	Embassy of the Republic of Iraq	van Kloberg & Associates, Ltd.	Ended	FARA-3466-114
1988	Embassy of the Republic of Iraq	Szaz, Zoltan Michael	Ended	FARA-3187-115
1985	Embassy of Iraq	Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker	Ended	FARA-3763-117
1985	Embassy of Iraq	van Kloberg & Associates, Ltd.	Ended	FARA-3466-119
1985	Republic of Iraq	van Kloberg & Associates, Ltd.	Ended	FARA-3466-118
1980	Iraqi Interests Section of the Embassy of India to the U.S.	Perry, Marilyn Edith	Ended	FARA-2731-120
1978	Ministry of Information, Government of Iraq	Perry, Marilyn Edith	Ended	FARA-2731-121
1962	Republic of Iraq	Eagan, Edward P.F.	Ended	FARA-1522-124
1955	Government of Iraq	Palestine Arab Refugee Office	Ended	FARA-897-126
1955	Kingdom of Iraq	Arab Information Center	Ended	FARA-876-127

02 Kurdistan Region

The Regional Government, the KDP and the PUK · 39 relationships

Year	Iraqi party	U.S. agent	Status	ID
2026	American Kurdish Committee	Yorktown Solutions, LLC	Active	FARA-6491-003
2026	Kurdistan Regional Government	Continental Strategy LLC	Active	FARA-7545-001
2025	Kurdistan Development Association on behalf of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK	Ballard Partners	Active	FARA-7070-008
2024	Kurdistan Regional Government	Chartwell Strategy Group, LLC	Active	FARA-6518-019
2024	Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq	American Kurdish Committee, Inc. (AKC)	Active	FARA-7367-016
2023	Arab Project Party	Prime Policy Group	Active	FARA-6377-021
2023	Council of Ministers Kurdistan Regional Government	Kurdish Protection Action Council	Active	FARA-7213-023
2023	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	AF International, LLC	Ended	FARA-6639-020
2021	Kurdistan Regional Government	ArentFox Schiff LLP	Active	FARA-6952-031
2019	Kurdistan Regional Government Liaison Office	Barwari, Delovan	Ended	FARA-6772-034
2018	Kurdistan Regional Government	PASS LLC	Ended	FARA-6538-042
2018	Kurdistan Regional Government through PASS-USA	OPC Strategies LLC	Ended	FARA-6601-040
2017	Iraqi National Project (IRP)	Alsalih, Mark K.	Ended	FARA-5974-047
2017	Kurdistan Democratic Party Seventh Branch (USA and Canada)	diGenova & Toensing, LLP	Ended	FARA-6445-045
2015	H.E. Shaykh Abdalrazzaq Hatem al-Sulayman	Greenhill Group, LLC	Ended	FARA-6271-061
2015	Kurdistan Regional Government	Dentons US LLP	Ended	FARA-6284-060
2014	Ali Hatem al-Suleiman	Calex Partners, LLC	Ended	FARA-6249-065
2014	Iraq Stability and Security Program (ISSP)	Alsalih, Mark K.	Ended	FARA-5974-063
2014	Kurdistan Regional Government	Greenberg Traurig, LLP	Active	FARA-5712-067
2014	Kurdistan Regional Government	Squire Patton Boggs, LLP	Ended	FARA-2165-068
2010	Dr. Nahro Mohammad Abdulkarim Al- Kasnazan Al-Husseini, Secretary General, Coalition of Iraqi National Unity (CINU)	Akbar, Mir H.	Ended	FARA-5977-078
2009	Kurdistan Regional Government	QORVIS LLC	Ended	FARA-5483-080
2009	Kurdistan Regional Government	TS Navigations, LLC	Ended	FARA-5943-081
2009	Kurdistan Regional Government	Cassidy & Associates, Inc.	Ended	FARA-5643-082
2008	Kurdistan Regional Government	Broydrick & Associates, Inc.	Ended	FARA-5859-085
2008	Nahro Mohammad Abdul Karim Al-Kasnazan Al-Husseini, Secretary General, Coalition of Iraqi National Unity (CINU)	Bitar, Janet M.	Ended	FARA-5863-084
2007	Kurdistan Regional Government	Greenberg Traurig, LLP	Ended	FARA-5712-088
2007	Kurdistan Regional Government	American Business Development Group	Ended	FARA-5810-090
2006	Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) through Barbour Griffith & Rogers, LLC	Herald Group, LLC	Ended	FARA-5751-095
2006	Kurdistan Regional Government	Kurdistan Regional Government - Liaison Office - USA	Active	FARA-5783-092
2006	Kurdistan Regional Government	Slocum & Boddie, PLLC	Active	FARA-5765-094
2005	Kurdistan Regional Government	Russo Marsh & Rogers	Ended	FARA-5682-097
2004	Kurdish Regional Government (formerly known as Kurdish Democratic Party)	BGR Government Affairs, LLC	Active	FARA-5430-100
1997	Kurdistan Regional Government	Shemdin, Nijyar H.	Ended	FARA-5196-111
1993	Representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Barham Salih	Korn, David A.	Ended	FARA-4773-112
1992	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	Commonwealth Consulting Corporation	Ended	FARA-4647-113
1987	Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq (KDP)	Abdulla, Muhyeddin Rahim	Ended	FARA-4047-116
1974	Kurdistan Democratic Party	Dosky, Mohammed Said	Ended	FARA-2543-122
1965	Command Council of the Revolution of Iraqi-Kurdistan	Lem Jones Associates, Inc.	Ended	FARA-1886-123

03 Parties and blocs

Parties, blocs, electoral lists and opposition movements · 19 relationships

Year	Iraqi party	U.S. agent	Status	ID
2025	Taqadum Party	Ballard Partners	Ended	FARA-7070-009
2023	Taqadum Party	BGR Government Affairs, LLC	Ended	FARA-5430-022
2021	Iraqi Nationalist Opposition Front (INOF)	Iraqi Nationalist Opposition Front (INOF)	Active	FARA-6992-030
2019	Arab Project Party Iraq	Morris Global Strategies LLC	Active	FARA-6688-035
2017	For Iraq United	Andreae & Associates	Ended	FARA-6371-044
2016	National Mobilization Force	Law Offices of Robert Kelley	Ended	FARA-6338-056
2014	Al Arabiya Bloc and its chairman Saleh Mutlaq	Patten, William Samuel, Jr.	Ended	FARA-6207-069
2014	Common Council of Iraqi and Arabic Tribes	Alsalih, Mark K.	Ended	FARA-5974-066
2013	Tajdeed Party, also known as Tajdeed Slate	Cassidy & Associates, Inc.	Ended	FARA-6179-070
2012	Iraqiya List	Sanitas International, LLC	Ended	FARA-5963-072
2010	Tajdeed Electoral Slate	Alsalih, Mark K.	Ended	FARA-5974-079
2008	Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq	ISCI-USA, Inc.	Ended	FARA-5885-083
2007	Iraqi National Accord	BGR Government Affairs, LLC	Ended	FARA-5430-089
2007	Iraqi Tawafuq Front aka Iraqi Accordance Front	Zenith Consulting, Inc.	Ended	FARA-5792-091
2003	Iraqi Free Officers & Civilians Movement	Morgan Meguire, LLC	Ended	FARA-5560-107
2003	Iraqi Independent Democrats Adnan Pachachi, Chairman	FWH and Associates, LLC	Ended	FARA-5587-103
2000	Iraqi National Congress (INC)	Goodwin Procter, LLP	Ended	FARA-3901-108
2000	Iraqi National Congress Support Foundation (INCSF)	Goodwin Procter, LLP	Ended	FARA-3901-109
1999	Constitutional Monarchy Movement	MWW Group	Ended	FARA-5353-110

04 Individuals

Politicians and public figures in their own name · 15 relationships

This category holds 15 contracts signed by Iraqi politicians and public figures in their own name. Their names and contracts are inside the locked wing.

05 Businesses and institutions

Banks, companies, universities and organisations · 10 relationships

Year	Iraqi party	U.S. agent	Status	ID
2024	International Islamic Bank	Blinderman, Eric	Ended	FARA-7401-012
2021	American University of Iraq- Baghdad	Alexandria Group International LLC	Ended	FARA-6707-032
2020	Iraq Advisory Council	Alaaldin, Farhad	Active	FARA-6864-033
2018	Iraq Private Banks League	Greenwich Media Strategies, LLC	Ended	FARA-6380-041
2016	Iraq Stability and Security Program (ISSP)	Washington Strategy Group	Ended	FARA-6365-050
2016	Peace Ambassadors for Iraq (PAFI)	Logan International Relations, LLC	Ended	FARA-6352-053
2016	Peace Ambassadors for Iraq (PAFI) thru Logan International Relations	Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP	Ended	FARA-5928-052
2015	Adalid Business Consulting DMCC	FGS Global (US) LLC (FKA FGH Holdings LLC)	Ended	FARA-5666-059
1957	Arab States Delegations Office (Composed of Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen & Sudan)	Ansara, James M.	Ended	FARA-1053-125
1945	Arab States (Composed of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Transjordon)	Arab Office	Ended	FARA-322-128

06 Communities

Yazidis, Assyrians and Christians, and others · 6 relationships

Year	Iraqi party	U.S. agent	Status	ID
2025	Eastern Levant Region (Sunni region in Iraq)	Independence Front For Freedom And Peace	Ended	FARA-7634-006
2025	Government of Ezidikhan (Indigenous nation within Iraq)	Government of Ezidikhan	Active	FARA-7538-010
2022	Provisional Government of Ezidikhan	Harrigan, Patrick D.	Ended	FARA-6850-025
2016	Assyrian Democratic Movement	Nineveh Plain Defense Fund	Ended	FARA-6339-055
2016	Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU)	Nineveh Plain Defense Fund	Ended	FARA-6339-054
2010	Katrin Michael, Advocate for Iraqi Christians	Holland & Knight	Ended	FARA-3718-077

07 Local government

Provincial councils · 2 relationships

Year	Iraqi party	U.S. agent	Status	ID
2019	Salahaddin Provincial Council	Iraq Advisory Group FZE	Ended	FARA-6641-038
2016	Provincial Salahuddin Council/Province of Salah Addin	Squire Patton Boggs, LLP	Ended	FARA-2165-051

What the locked wing holds

A card for every contract: date, type, fees, duration, signatories and intermediaries, and the scope of work in Arabic.
Every original document for each relationship in date order, each linked to the U.S. Department of Justice site.
The payments declared in the semi-annual reports (1,500 lines).
Contacts with Congress, the executive branch, the media and think tanks (3,759), with names and purposes.
The individuals category in full, with names.
Search, filters by category, era and status, and an analysis board.

Limits of these records

The amounts are a floor: what agents declared receiving in the reports available, not total spending. Few documents before 2000 are online. Some lobbying is registered under a different law (the LDA) with Congress and is not covered here. Every figure in the wing points to its original document.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice FARA records, from the official bulk data and the original documents at efile.fara.gov.

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