The Central Bank of Iraq would like to inform all banks that it is continuing to provide them with small groups of the Iraqi currency by withdrawing the amounts from the current balances with this bank.
He explains that if there is an inquiry or notes, banks can contact the Compliance Department in the Issuance and Treasury Department of this bank and by email
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22 May 2019
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – President Barham Salih met with US Assistant Secretary of Treasury Marshall Blingsley at the Peace Palace in Baghdad on Monday.
“During the meeting, they discussed the bilateral relations between Iraq and the United States of America, especially in the economic and financial fields, and the need to enhance the prospects for cooperation between Iraqi and US banks, which will contribute to the development and revitalization of the Iraqi economy,” a presidential statement said.
“The latest political developments at the regional and international levels and the importance of consolidating the foundations of peace and stability to achieve progress and prosperity for the peoples of the region have been reviewed,” he added.
Baghdad today – Baghdad – The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, warned on Monday that the war between Iran and America would be an end to Iraq, stressing that any party that infuses Iraq with war and makes it a battlefield will be an enemy of the Iraqi people.
“I’m not with the war between Iran and America, and I’m not putting Iraq in this war and making it a battlefield for the Iran-US conflict,” Sadr said in a twitter tweet at his Twitter account.
“We need a serious stand with the senior people to keep Iraq away from the fierce war that will consume the green and the land, making it a rift,” he added.
“We need to raise the Iraqi people’s voice condemning the war and mixing Iraq with war, if Iraq did not stop one serious and it will be that war the end of Iraq if it took place .. I have been warned to warn.”
Sadr said, “So this does not fuel a war you will be firewood, both parties are not qualified to enter the war and does not want it .. Neither Iraq nor its people carries another war .. We need peace and reconstruction.”
The leader of the Sadrist movement, that “any party that infuses Iraq by war and makes it a battlefield to be an enemy of the Iraqi people.”
By Salama Abdel Rahman
Mubasher: European currencies have seen a drop in front of the Iraqi dinar, while the US dollar has risen.
The euro fell by 0.24% against the Iraqi dinar, the pound dropped 0.4%, and the dollar climbed 0.09% in front of it, compared to its previous levels.
The JPY’s value in front of the Iraqi dinar fell by 0.27%, at 8:10 a.m. GMT.
The performance of the Gulf currencies was positive against the Iraqi dinar, the value of the Saudi riyal, the UAE dirham increased by 0.1%, the Qatari riyal 0.09%, the Bahraini dinar 0.07%, and the Jordanian dinar by 0.06% before it.
The value of the Kuwaiti dinar in front of the Iraqi currency decreased by 0.04%.
The value of the Egyptian pound in front of the Iraqi dinar declined by 0.03%.
Baghdad today – Najaf – A source in the province of Najaf, on Thursday (May 16, 2019) that the leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, visited the house of the supreme authority, Ali al-Sistani, in Najaf.
The source said in an interview with (Baghdad today), that Sadr visited Sistani, a visit to Ramadan, did not discuss the political situation or other in the country.
The visit comes one day after the events in Najaf, which killed a number of supporters of the Sadrist movement, who took part in a demonstration against former leaders of the current, accused of corruption.
Earlier, a video circulated by activists on Facebook showed Sadr in a taxi in a street in Najaf.
(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, on the unfortunate violence in the city of Najaf Ashraf.
In a statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it, “the order of the Prime Minister and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Adel Abdul Mahdi, the security forces have ordered the arrest of a number of perpetrators of extrajudicial acts that killed a number of citizens and caused the intimidation of innocent people and the burning and destruction of property” .
He added that “investigations are underway with all the accused and will be prosecuted all participants fire or burning, and to bring the person who proves the offense to the judiciary.”
The commander-in-chief of the armed forces stressed “the need to protect the freedom of peaceful demonstration in accordance with the rules laid down by the Constitution and the law.
He ordered Abdul Mahdi to open an investigation into how the security services in Najaf treated during the painful events and the reasons for failure to avoid or reduce the human and material losses.
The prime minister stressed “the need to continue to fight corruption, corruption and oppression by all political and public forces in support of the reform process and to combat corruption through peaceful and legal means,” and called on all to submit their documents and information to the Supreme Council for Combating Corruption.
A number of cities in the south witnessed a hot night security did not know for a long time resulted in the killing and wounding of at least 25 Iraqis, in addition to the burning of shops and commercial complexes and car agencies, while besieging supporters of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, headquarters and commercial interests and houses of leaders In the ranks of the current decided to expel them on Tuesday, due to files of corruption.
And witnessed the cities of Karbala, Babil, Wasit, Basra and Najaf mass demonstrations near the homes of those expelled from the Sadrist movement and their offices and commercial interests belonging to them, but the most violent was in the province of Najaf, killing four supporters of Mr. Sadr and wounding 19 others during the storming a commercial mall belonging to the leader of the Sadrist movement Jawad Karawi, after the fall of two wounded in the province of Wasit neighboring similar acts of violence.
The governor of Najaf province, after an emergency meeting held today in the presence of Governor Luay Yasiri three important decisions against the backdrop of yesterday’s events in the province.
The Council decided to hold another special session to vote on a new director of the police leadership, replacing the current commander Major General Alaa Gharib, and to hold the full responsibility and the security services concerned events yesterday and considered them “failure and taking their real role towards the martyrdom of Najaf bloody events.”
The Najaf Council nominated “three names of provincial officers to vote for them in succession to the current police director in an extraordinary session to be held next Sunday.”
The council called on “the Governor of Najaf to take full responsibility as the head of the Supreme Security Committee to preserve the lives and property of people and demonstrators in the coming days.”
Al-Ahed News – Baghdad The economic expert Mohammed Saleh’s appearance, that Iraq’s economic future, is to develop the private sector.
“There is a trend towards the cohesion of the social market economy, and it means effective partnership between the state and the private sector, and work according to the principle of utility, efficiency, profit and loss,” Saleh told the newspaper.
“The job of the state is to compete with the private sector, partnership, good supervision, creating a social market, and using oil revenues for social benefit,” he said.
“The market is driving development with the participation of the state and this is the future we are looking forward to, which is an ideological vision for the development plan.”
Reuters – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US military said on Tuesday there were imminent imminent threats to US forces in Iraq, which are now on high alert, stressing fears of Iranian-backed forces in the region.
“The US mission is on high alert now and we continue to closely monitor any imminent or imminent threats to US forces in Iraq,” said Captain Bill Urban, a spokesman for the US military’s Central Command, during a briefing to a British general earlier on Tuesday.
BAGHDAD – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Baghdad late Tuesday on an unannounced visit, an Iraqi government source told AFP, cancelling a trip to Germany amid escalating US-Iran tensions.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the high security nature of the visit, said Pompeo was set to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi.
The visit comes two days after the US announced it was dispatching an aircraft carrier strike group and bomber task force to the Middle East to send a “clear and unmistakeable” message to Iran.
National Security Advisor John Bolton said the deployment was in response to a “number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings,” but did not elaborate.
“The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces,” he said.
Pompeo had been en route to Germany but suddenly cancelled the trip due to “pressing issues,” the State Department said, without elaborating where he was heading.
But in response to a question about threats from Iran or its proxies on US forces in Iraq, the top US diplomat mentioned both Iraq and Jordan.
“As Secretary of State I have a responsibility to keep the officers that work for me safe each and every day all around the world. That includes in Erbil and Baghdad, in our facilities in Amman, all around the Middle East,” he said.
“And so any time we receive threat reporting, things that raise concerns, we do everything… that we can to make sure that those planned or contemplated attacks don’t take place, and to make sure that we’ve got the right security posture,” he said.
Pompeo had been traveling from Finland, where he had attended a meeting of the Arctic Council.
He was due to meet both Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas later Tuesday in Germany.
