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Al-Sudani returns to Baghdad after concluding his visit in Washington

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The Prime Minister returns to the capital, Baghdad, after concluding his official visit to the United States of America.
The Prime Minister’s Media Office said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani returned to the capital, Baghdad, after concluding his official visit to the United States of America, which included holding a series of meetings, discussions, seminars, dialogue sessions, and other events, which are As follows:■ Meeting with US President Joseph Biden■ Receiving Secretary of State Anthony Blinken■ Visiting the Pentagon headquarters and meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin



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A Fistful of Dinars: Demystifying Iraq's Dollar Auction


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The Central Bank of Iraq's (CBI) dollar auction has been a continuous source of controversies and conspiracy theories. The main accusations facing it include: the siphoning of dollars to Iran, money laundering, and currency smuggling.

Missing from this melee is an understanding of the economy's key structural imbalances: mainly that the Iraqi economy is wholly dependent on oil export revenues, and demand for goods and services is met through imports handled by a largely informal private sector.




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The Article 140 Committee announces the start of distributing the amounts

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The Article 140 Committee in Kirkuk Governorate announced, on Tuesday, the start of distributing sums of money to the deportees after the arrival of bonds worth more than 8 billion dinars from the public center.

The head of the committee, Babiker Siddiq Ahmed, told Shafaq News Agency, “A new batch of deportees’ checks arrived at the office of the Article 140 Committee in Kirkuk, where the number of this batch reached 845 deportees, and the total amounts of the checks amounted to 8 billion and 450 million Iraqi dinars.”




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After 21 years of the dollar auction... Iraq is close to closing the window amid reassurances and warnings

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Iraq is approaching the end of the closure of the dollar selling window at the Central Bank - which has been controversial - over the past two decades.The Central Bank's management plans to gradually cancel the dollar auction during the year 2024, leading to its complete cancellation by the end of the year, and to maintain it for audit and statistical purposes, in an effort to enable Iraqi banks to establish and establish solid banking relationships with the global and regional banking sector in order to achieve the sobriety of the Iraqi banking sector and full commitment. According to international standards and requirements.Iraq relies on the platform for selling currency directly to local banks and companies, which was previously known as the daily dollar auction, as one of the mechanisms for preserving the value of the Iraqi dinar and combating speculative operations in the parallel market.




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Abdel Wahed: The Sudanese visit to Washington is important and will restore stability to the dinar price

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Abdul Wahed said in a blog post seen by Mail, “The Prime Minister’s visit to the United States of America comes at an important time, and will be a transition towards a new phase of relations, especially since the visit is evidence of the Iraqi desire to build a sustainable strategic partnership based on mutual respect.” .

She added, "The files that will be discussed, whether economic, security, or political, must certainly benefit Iraq and have a role in the recovery of the economy and the return of stability to the dinar price."


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Al-Sudani will stay in America for a week.. And Will Visit TEXAS!

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He stated that “the goal of the visit is to move relations with the United States to a new stage that includes activating the provisions of the Strategic Framework Agreement, which is in line with our government’s program that focuses on economic and financial reforms and other important fields, as well as productive partnerships with various countries of the world.”



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