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Political: Condemnation and denunciation of US c****s will not change the equation
Information / Baghdad…
Political analyst Sabah al-Ukaili said on Sunday that the government’s statements of condemnation and denunciation towards repeated US c****s will not change the equation, pointing out that the continuation of US forces to remain inside Iraq pushes the resistance towards the use of force in order to remove them from the country.
Al-Uqaili told Al-Maalouma that “Washington’s failure to comply with the decision of the Iraqi parliament and keep its forces in the country makes these forces occupied, which pushes the resistance to carry out operations against it in order to remove them by force from Iraq and ensure that no American soldier is present in Iraqi territory.”
He added that “the government is satisfied with denouncing and condemning the American c****s inside Iraq, and this matter will not change anything in the equation, at a time when there must be a government effort to bind the United States to the agreements concluded with it.” “
He pointed out that “the agreements concluded with Washington stipulate the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, but there is an unjustified procrastination and many question marks.”
Source: Dinar Recaps
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Iran announces the start of settling its country’s exports to Iraq in its national currency, the riyal
The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran confirmed the start of a project to settle the country’s exports abroad in the national currency, the riyal. On the sidelines of the meeting of the Government and Private Sector Council in Khorasan Razavi Province (northeastern Iran), Muhammad Reza Farzin explained that the issue of settling Iranian exports via the riyal currency outside the borders has been studied by the Central Bank for several months, and that its entry into force will address the requirements of exporters to Iraq and Afghanistan.
He added, “This issue is one of the demands of Mashhad’s merchants for export to Afghanistan, and through the implementation of the ‘Rial Offshore’ project (riyals outside the borders), merchants will be able to benefit from it instead of foreign currency.“
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The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran pointed out that “the regulations for the cross-border rial project have been formulated by the Central Bank, and in practice two banks have started this project, and soon it will be circulated to all the country’s banks.” It is noteworthy that the Federal Reserve Bank, the US central bank, imposed procedures and restrictions on external financial transfers from Iraq, to ensure that they do not reach Tehran.
A report issued by the International Center for Development Studies, headquartered in the British capital, London, previously warned that “the attempts of the Central Bank of Iraq to prevent the smuggling of the dollar have failed, as the price of the Iraqi dinar continues to decline against the dollar, which exacerbates the suffering of Iraqis and raises the prices of goods.” The report pointed out that “the Iraqi banking system, instead of contributing to the development of the Iraqi economy, has become a major obstacle to growth or attracting investments, in addition to becoming an essential accessory to money smuggling and money laundering networks.
There are a large number of banks that belong to figures close to politicians, parties and factions.” Armed forces contribute significantly to dollar smuggling and financing foreign trade operations with neighboring countries in exchange for receiving commissions and political support.” The report estimates that two-thirds of the Central Bank of Iraq’s sales in what is known as the “currency selling window”, which ranges at levels of $250 million per day, did not benefit the Iraqi market over the past two decades, which led to the country losing sums of money of no less than $400 billion. The British report did not rule out that dollar smuggling operations would lead to the isolation and ban of more Iraqi banks because some of them contribute to violating international sanctions, noting that “the recent US Treasury decisions to impose a ban on a number of Iraqi banks and oblige the rest to comply with the platform for monitoring the movement of electronic funds is what… “It is only the beginning of more difficult, deeper and more painful steps.” link
Iran and Iraq discuss using the Isomer platform to finance the two countries’ trade
Iraq and Iran have reached an agreement to finance private sector trade, by adopting a new platform called Isomer, away from using the dollar.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mohammad Reza Farzin, said, “The issue of settling Iranian exports via the rial currency outside the borders has been studied by the Central Bank for several months, and that its entry into force will address the requirements of exporters to Iraq and Afghanistan.”
He added, “This issue is one of the demands of Mashhad’s merchants for export to Afghanistan, and through the implementation of the Riyal Offshore Project (riyals outside the borders), merchants will be able to benefit from it instead of foreign currency.”
The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran pointed out that “the regulations for the cross-border riyal project have been formulated by the Central Bank, and in practice two banks have started this project, and soon it will be circulated to all the country’s banks.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’ al-Sudani revealed that the Iranian side suggested that Iraq deal in currencies other than The dollar, including the Chinese yuan, is used in commercial transactions between the two countries, due to the Western economic sanctions that Tehran faces.
Trade between Iraq and Iran was damaged, after the rise in the exchange rate of the dollar in the parallel market, as traders in the private sector depend on buying the dollar from the parallel market to finance their imports from Iran.
On the other hand, an informed source revealed to Al-Iqtisad News that Iraq and Iran held discussions about financing private sector trade away from the dollar, through the Asian Clearing Union, which is headed by Iran and includes the countries of China, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and others.
He added that The settlement will be in the currencies of the Indian rupee or the Chinese yuan, indicating that the Iraqi merchant will pay and receive in dinars and the Iranian merchant will pay and receive in Iranian riyals.
The Asian Clearing Union (ACU) confirmed the adoption of the currencies of the yuan, ruble and rupee and the development of an electronic platform to carry out commercial transactions between member states independently of the dollar and the “SWIFT” Association. “
In an interview with the Iranian “Jam Jam” TV channel, the Secretary General of the Asian Clearing Union (ACU), Farhad Morsali, indicated that the ACU meeting in Tehran recently adopted 12 decisions, as officials of the Indian and Pakistani central banks confirmed that these decisions are in the interest of Iran and the country’s merchants in comparison. With the rest of the members.
Morsali stated that one of the most important decisions taken is the exchange between Iranian merchants and the rest of the member states’ merchants via the rupee currency, so that Iranian merchants can open accounts in rupees in specific banks, noting that the decision will come into effect next month.
He added that Iranian merchants will be able to obtain financing in the currencies of the rupee, yuan and ruble, in addition to other national currencies of member states, and get rid of the ban on the dollar and the SWIFT platform.
He stated that a new platform will be launched called “Esomer”, which is similar to the local “SPAM” platform for electronic financial transactions. link
The Council of Ministers and the Central Bank are the first institutions in 2023 to achieve financial and banking reform
Samir Al-Nusair
Since the beginning of 2023, the new government’s measures have coincided in accordance with its governmental platform in its twenty-three axes, more than half of which was allocated to the detailed road map to address the lack of methodology and the dispersion of policies in the economic sectors and the chaos in managing the economy and to address the imbalance in the lack of coordination between the financial and monetary policies and the lack of clarity in the financial policy and these diagnoses.
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The solutions were accompanied by the Central Bank reconsidering the tools and applications of monetary policy, cooperation, harmony and continuous coordination between the government and the Central Bank. Therefore, there was a unification of visions and setting of the interim goals for the year 2023 and the strategy for the coming years.
With permanent cooperation and continued support from the Prime Minister for the procedures of the Central Bank and a focus on supporting its plans in achieving the priorities that are based on achieving financial and banking reform first and thus reforming the other rings of the real economy, of which the banking sector occupies the first basic link in the economy, therefore the steps of cooperation and coordination and issuing reform decisions have yielded results.
Joint efforts to enable the economy to advance at good growth rates were confirmed by international organizations, especially the reports of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and their acknowledgment that the Iraqi economy in 2023 left its fragility to a gradual recovery and achieved an inflation rate at an annual rate of 3.7%, which is the lowest comparative rate of 7% in January 2023, which is The rate is the lowest compared to the rates of Arab and regional countries for the same period, and this is one of the goals of monetary policy by reducing inflation and maintaining the general level of prices despite the fluctuation in the exchange rate. In addition, there is an expectation to achieve growth in non-oil GDP by 5%.
Also organizing the financing of foreign trade and moving banks to build trust relations with global correspondent banks and obtaining their approval to open up to 40 accounts with our banks for the first time in years and allowing commercial and banking dealings with them directly and gradually leaving the electronic platform and introducing new foreign currencies into dealing and trading for the purposes of foreign trade. With China, the Emirates, Turkey and India, in addition to the US dollar, which will help gradually stabilize the exchange rate in the parallel market, as well as the serious direction of the government and the central bank to move and transform from a cash economy to a digital economy and focus on developing electronic payment systems and securing the infrastructure for this by establishing a national company for payment systems and reconsidering the structure.
Banking financing and preparing to launch the national lending strategy, establishing a leadership bank to finance small and medium enterprises, and reconsidering the structural, supervisory and supervisory functions of the bank’s specialized departments. The important and basic priority that the Central Bank is working on is preparing to launch the financial inclusion strategy, as the number of accounts opened in banks has grown by 14% and has reached more than 10 million accounts. The number of credit cards issued reached more than 18 million cards.
All of these reform measures were completed under difficult and complex circumstances during 2023 and with continuous support, harmony, cooperation and support between Mr. Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani and Mr. Governor of the Central Bank Ali Mohsen Al-Alaq, which confirms the entitlement of the Council of Ministers and the Central Bank to be called the first institutions in 2023 for their leadership, supervisory and executive role. In pursuit of financial and banking reform in 2023 as a first stage in achieving successful economic reform. link
Source: Dinar Recaps
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Announcement of the start of the cancellation of the dollar in the trading of the “Brix” group
Iran, like other BRICS members, will abolish the use of the dollar in trade, economic and financial dealings within the group, and has already begun several steps in this direction.
“Within this organization, we have many planned tasks and joint work with other BRICS members,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief Negotiator Ali Bagheri Kayani announced this, an interview with Novosti correspondent.
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“One of the most important actions was to eliminate the use of the dollar in commercial and economic transactions and financial cooperation. Activities like this have begun in the work of the BRICS, and we hope to strengthen and grow these activities in order to implement this task as soon as possible.”
The BRICS group includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but more recently 23 countries have already expressed a desire to join this economic bloc.
At the last summit held in Johannesburg in August, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia were officially invited to join the BRICS as of January 1, 2024.
Iran: The return of relations with Saudi Arabia has strengthened our relations with the countries of the region
Baghdad Today – Follow-up
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, said on Sunday (December 31, 2023) that the restoration of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has strengthened Tehran’s relations with the rest of the countries of the region.
Kanani said during a press conference in the city of Birjand, the center of Iran’s southeastern Khorasan province, “Basically, the improvement and resumption of political relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia has had a positive impact on other aspects of Iran’s relations with the countries of the region.”
“Since the assumption of relations with Saudi Arabia, we have held several rounds of negotiations with five to six negotiations, in addition to the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to Riyadh and before that the visit of his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan to Tehran,” Kanani said.
“Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to Riyadh and his participation in the joint Arab-Islamic summit meeting on Palestine have strengthened the level of Iranian-Saudi relations,” he said.
In March, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced the resumption of diplomatic relations, which had been severed since 2016, following negotiations hosted by China.
Iraq and Oman have made great efforts to restore relations between Tehran and Riyadh, with three rounds of negotiations held in Baghdad between Iranian and Saudi officials.
Saudi Arabia severed ties with Iran after its embassy in Tehran and consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad were stormed after Iranian protesters burned down the kingdom’s embassy after Riyadh e******d Shiite cleric Nimr Baqir al-Nimr in January 2016.
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Al-Sudani directs to open the celebration square to citizens
Baghdad Today – Baghdad
Today, Saturday (December 30, 2023), Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani directed the opening of the celebration square to citizens on the occasion of the New Year.
The Sudanese Media Office said in a statement received by “Baghdad Today”, that “Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, directed the concerned authorities, to open the celebration square on the Karkh side of Baghdad to the movement of citizens, and to maintain The gates of the Green Zone open after midnight, on New Year’s Eve, on Sunday – Monday of this week, on the occasion of the New Year.”
Parliamentary wealth: “procrastination” of the region obstructed the adoption of the oil law
Economy News-Baghdad
The Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives attributed the delay in passing the oil and gas law to the procrastination of the Kurdistan region in implementing its obligations to the federal government, while the committee justified the sale of some oil companies for their shares in Iraq to two things.
Committee member Ali al-Mashkour said that “outstanding points of contention between the center and the region have caused the delay in approving the oil and gas law so far, as well as the latter’s procrastination in implementing its obligations towards the center.”
Regarding the sale of some international oil companies for their shares in Iraq, Al-Mashkour indicated that “this is due to two things; the first is to achieve their interests in other countries in the event of a valuable opportunity for them, regardless of the place in which they operated,” and the second reason “is due to political changes and events taking place in the country in which they were operating and conflicts of interest between one country and another.”
Integrity returns one billion dinars to the Ministry of Electricity from one of its contracting companies
Economy Baghdad News
The Federal Integrity Commission announced on Sunday the return of nearly one billion dinars to the Ministry of Electricity as a result of the fundamental investigative procedures in the case of financial irregularities in one of the contracts concluded by the General Company for Rusafa Electricity Distribution (formerly) with a general trading and contracting company.
The Authority’s Investigations Department said in a statement seen by “Economy News” that “an investigative committee was formed to investigate the violations contained in the contract concluded by the General Company for Rusafa Electricity Distribution (formerly) the General Company for Electricity Distribution of Baghdad currently with trading and general contracting companies, to provide maintenance, rehabilitation and collection service for shops (Karrada – Nairiyah – New Baghdad – Zafaraniyah – Madaen – Diyala Bridge Nahrawan – Al-Wahda neighborhood).”
She added that “the work of the committee resulted in the return of (977,130,000) million dinars in favor of the Ministry of Electricity, after the reluctance of the investing company to return it for a period of five years.”
The department pointed out, according to the statement, that “the contract, which lasts up to five years with a profit rate of (11.6%) for the service fee and collection paid to the investing company from the amounts of energy sold, and granted a grace period of six months from the date of signing the contract; to zero the energy losses, indicating that a warning was issued to the company for its reluctance to provide services,” pointing out that “the company has no experience in the field of electric power, which led to damage to public money amounting to (10,260, 480,515) billion dinars
National Security announces the seizure of $ 15 million intended for smuggling and price speculation during 2023
Economy Baghdad News
The Iraqi National Security Agency announced the seizure of $ 15 million intended for smuggling and price speculation during 2023.
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The agency’s media directorate said at the annual press conference on Sunday, “the arrest of 421 defendants in the file of currency smuggling and price speculation, with the seizure of more than $ 15 million, as well as 7 billion and 250 million, including counterfeit amounts.”
Regarding the d**g file, the agency announced that it was able to “dismantle most of the main networks, overthrow 686 defendants a*****d of trade, distribution and transportation, and seize 179 kg of crystal, m*******a and hashish, 14 million and 600 thousand narcotic pills, and 1470 narcotic Datura plants.”
According to the directorate, “two planting operations of narcotic plants were thwarted, the first in an apartment inside a residential complex, and the second inside a house east of the capital, Baghdad, with the arrest of the a*****d and the seizure of seeds.”
In addition, the agency’s media directorate announced, “the seizure of 286,000 tons of expired foodstuffs, smuggled medicines, wheat, fertilizers prohibited from circulation and materials prohibited from import.”
She pointed out that the file of securing the provincial council e*******s witnessed the arrest of 122 violators who tried to influence the progress of the process and were referred to the judiciary.
According to the directorate, the service overthrew 14 foreign t********s and s*****e bombers recruited outside Iraq to plan attacks inside the country
Source: Dinar Recaps
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