Spokesman for Sadr: Abadi among candidates to head government

Iraq news – Spokesman for Leader of Sadrist Movement Muqtada al Sadr, Salah al Obeidi said Monday that current Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi is among the candidates to head the next government.

In press statements, Obeidi explained that the issue of forming the next government will be clearer after Eid al-Fitr holidays, pointing out that if Abadi gains the confidence of other parties which won seats in the Parliamentary elections there will be no obstacles facing him to assume another term in office.

The Parliamentary elections was marked by record low turnout. It was the first since Iraq declared victory over the ISIS group and the fourth since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Article Credit: Thebaghdadpost.com 

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BTI-project.org – Iraq

This is an excerpt from page 21 of this report…

8 | Currency and Price Stability

The government’s monetary policy since 2003 has focused on maintaining price stability and exchange rate predictability. The inflation has remained in the low since 2010. According to the CBI, the inflation rate is 1.4% (2015 estimates), while the World Bank estimates 2015 at -1.2%, and the country’s international reserve volume also has decreased due to the sharp decline in oil prices. The independence of the CBI suffered a setback in January 2011 when former Prime Minister al-Maliki won a court ruling that placed independent institutions, including the CBI, under the control of the cabinet. In January 2012, the CBI raised the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar to $1.19, causing a huge crisis that led the Supreme Judicial Council to issue an arrest warrant for CBI governor Sinan al-Shabibi in October 2012 on charges of corruption. Al-Shabibi received a seven-year prison sentence in absentia 2014, shortly before being acquitted of all charges. The difference between the official and parallel exchange increased from three percent in 2015 to nine percent in May 2016. The CBI introduced a number of policies to keep inflation low. The dinar remained widely stable and was worth $1.71 in early 2017.

Article Credit: BTI-project.org (Special Thanks to David Tiff Duke) 

BGG ~ I have searched this, sourced it and verified what it said… This is, in fact, what it said.

However, I am not entirely certain this is not referring to an “internal valuation” of what they believe the IQD to be worth according to their own financial metrics (the BTI project – that is…)

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) – Some people have said the CBI has been closed since last weekend due to Eid al-Fitr.   Now that Ramadan is over it will be interesting.

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Sadrist movement denies alliance with State of Law

Iraq news – The political bureau of the Sadrist movement denied on Saturday news reports that the State of Law coalition would join an alliance between Sairun and Al Fatah.

Diaa al-Asadi said in a statement the reports were baseless.

The Sairun alliance which is backed by prominent Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr won the majority in the May 12 elections.

Article Credit: Thebaghdadpost.com (Charles Bright)

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The Sadrist movement establishes a condition for Abadi to take over a second term

“The map of the new Iraqi government will be clear features after the Eid,” pointing out that the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi will be among the proposed names of the next prime minister.

Al-Obaidi said in a statement to Al-Hayat that “re-counting and manual counting of a certain percentage of the ballot boxes, in my opinion, will not affect the share of the ballot boxes. (S) of the seats that won in the elections that took place recently, but may change some of the winners in the individual lists, especially if the results of the elections were canceled abroad. ”

The leader of the Sadrist movement and the alliance of other Moqtada al-Sadr has announced on Tuesday an agreement with the leader of the Fatah bloc Hadi al-Amri to shape ”

The announcement of the alliance of the leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Moqtada al-Sadr, with the factions of the popular crowd led by Hadi al-Amiri surprise to the political and popular, amid the prospects of the decline of the chances of Haiderabadi to become prime minister.

The alliance of Sadr and Fatah away from the alliance, “victory” led by Prime Minister Haider Abadi, who came close to the alliance, “Saron” during the past days, where Sadr on the most appropriate support for Abadi terms, amid leaks on Abadi’s rejection of those conditions.

The alliance has 54 seats in the parliament, the Fath Alliance 47, and the stream of wisdom 20, and the National Coalition 20 seats, and a total of 140 seats, may constitute a difficult figure in the Iraqi political equation.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party has 25 seats, while the National Union has 19 seats.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com (Special Thanks to Tim Tarkington)

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) – …The CBI never talked about people around the world bringing in their currency to Banks… The 10 years is the fact that the CBI will honor their currency nothing more.  …all currencies go up and down… Why do you think they go up and down?  Because they float.   It’s funny how many want to jump on the IMF bandwagon when I proved that the CBI must meet compliance before they could move to Article VIII.  Yet those same people won’t give any consideration to actual IMF statements about moving to a more liberal exchange rate regime…  because it doesn’t fit their RV, RI agenda!…  Whether you agree with me or not...the fact is there will never be an overnight RV, RI event. The very thought of such a thing is contradictory to the purpose of monetary policy to begin with.  There is a process…it is the same for any emerging-market country.

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Source: Abadi will reveal documents and confessions of a photographer to prove the occurrence of “big fraud” in the elections within two days

Baghdad today – The newspaper “Gulf News” in a report published on Tuesday, that the Prime Minister Haider Abadi, will inform the political blocs during the next two days, evidence of the rigorously large parliamentary elections that took place on 12 May.

The newspaper said in its report that “the frauds that marred the Iraqi elections and Iranian interventions to cover them, split the Iraqi political forces into two teams .. Support team to investigate all suspicions of fraud, and a team impelled to pass the elections and the threat of a security collapse in case not passed.

She added that “while the legal committee in the Iraqi parliament revealed the real reason for the delay of the judicial committees to start the counting and manual counting, described close to Vice President Nuri al-Maliki, the call of Ammar al-Hakim to pass the elections as an attempt to cover the fraud and pressure on the judiciary to challenge In any procedure to detect counterfeiters. ”

The newspaper quoted a member of the legal committee in the Iraqi parliament, Sadik al-Laban, that “the judicial committees that were formed to re-counting and sorting manually did not start work yet because the Federal Court did not resolve its position on the appeals made by political blocs against the amendment of the election law approved by the House of Representatives, “If the court challenges the law, the elections will recognize the violations and serious violations.”

“The Iraqi prime minister will present to the leaders of the political blocs during the next two days photographic documents, certificates and confessions of the staff of the Commission, all of which prove the extent of violations and fraud and violations that affected the voting process.”

The source of the newspaper, that “the fact-finding committee on the fire that lasted the ballot boxes in the Rusafa area has reached important results and that it has documents proving the evidence of those involved in the fire.”

The newspaper quoted the head of the committee, Adel Nuri, that “his committee will not disclose the names of those involved for reasons related to the conduct of the investigation, but the source close to Abadi confirmed that the latter will surprise the leaders of the blocks with shocking facts about the fraud and fire that followed, and what will reveal Abadi will change the map of alliances because “Katala will lose a lot of its seats and the winners will be referred to the courts.”

And formed blocks calling for the passage of elections and not to take the counting and sorting, according to the newspaper, “the broad coalition included both a coalition under the auspices of Sadr and the opening led by Hadi al-Amiri and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the stream of wisdom led by Ammar al-Hakim.”

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) – When you reintegrate with the world’s Financial system you must exit the peg and move to a float particularly in Iraq’s instance this is important.  The reason being as capital flows through the central banks Capital Account it will create inflation in the country. To counter such inflation being on a float allows the CBI to compensate by allowing the currency to appreciate. This is well-documented.  The hope is that the currency will rise fast as a result of significant investment in the country and has been stated as the Balassa-Samuelson effect.  If one is to believe the statement from the overview of Iraqi Finance 2018 they have significant investment lined up to come into the country.  Many people have challenged me over the years to provide credentials. My response was I’m not asking anyone to put trust in what I say but to validate what I say in the very documents that I reference.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) – How are you going to control inflation when large sums of money come into a country if you’re not going to float your currency?  All anyone needs to do is…read two or three of the documents from the IMF on the transition from fixed to float to understand how currency reform works.  You cannot be pegged when large influxes of capital flow through the CBI, the only alternative to being pegged is a float.  This is not guesswork, the IMF themselves told the CBI back in 2012 when they were about to transition the move to a more liberal exchange rate regime. The very definition of that is a float…we see the CBI follow the IMF time after time.  Considering the IMF has an agreement with the CBI for monetary reform as well as trusteeship over the CBI the chances are very good that they’ll follow what they recommend.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Fact-Finding committee: Influential people plotted burning of ballot boxes

Head of Iraqi Parliamentary Fact-Finding Committee Adel Nouri:

The cause of fire that broke out at a warehouse belonging to High Electoral Committee (HEC) at Al Rusafa district in Baghdad, which contained ballot boxes has been revealed according to Iraqi Parliament’s fact-finding committee.

Head of Iraqi Parliamentary Fact-Finding Committee Adel Nouri stressed his committee submitted information, which he described as important to the committee tasked with investigating the fire that broke out at HEC’s warehouses in Al Rusafa.

Nouri pointed out that his committee gathered vital information about the cause of the fire and the parties involved in it.

He explained that his committee is working with great efforts in coordination with the government committee formed to investigate the causes of the fire, underlining that his committee has direct contact with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi in this regard, noting that his committee provided important information about the incident to the government committee.

He underscored that the joint investigative committee has reached important and advanced results in the causes of the fire and the parties involved in it, adding that the investigations led to the arrest of a group of perpetrators and suspects of the fire who are among the influential people in Iraq.

Nouri stressed the sensitivity of the subject and its direct impact on the political process prevented the committee from disclosing the details, including names or entities involved in the incident, until the completion of the investigation.

He indicated that some parties who were involved in the Parliamentary elections had committed fraud in some provinces and to cover-up their crime they attempted to burn ballot boxes, especially after failing to win seats in the parliament.

Fraud have occurred in the elections with the aim of supporting militias to gain parliamentary seats and manipulate the will of the Iraqis, adding that the attempt to burn ballot boxes is a cover-up of the fraud that have been committed, according to observers.

Observers told The Baghdad Post that once the parliamentary fact-finding committee has completed its work, the details of its findings and shocking facts about those who rigged the elections and planned the burning of ballot boxes will be revealed, adding that all evidence lead to Iran and its agents in Iraq.

The Parliamentary elections was marked by record low turnout. It was the first since Iraq declared victory over the ISIS group and the fourth since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Article Credit: Thebaghdadpost.com (Charles Bright)
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Some interesting headlines…

Sadr’s understanding with Allawi and Hakim waiting for Abadi

End of the meeting of the three presidencies and political leaders .. Jabbouri announced the details

BGG ~ So – let me get this straight… these guys have a meeting, set out a way to verify the results and move on, then someone who was in this meeting, doesn’t like the sound of things – and immediately (the next morning) tries to set fire to the ballot boxes (which would be used to further this effort).

Here’s my take – this is as close as Maliki will ever get to having his way again. Any one thing doesn’t go his way from here on in and he’s done for good.

Allawi .. Calls for the formation of a caretaker government and the re-election

BGG ~ Of course Allawi would say that – what does he have to lose? Did anyone notice he was the largest Sunni list with around 20 seats?? …out of 365 seats.

There are way more Sunnis than that in Iraq. Why is there such low representation? Pretty easy equation.

If I had to guess – there were a bunch of people in this meeting, Maliki included, who would like a different end result than they have right now. In fact, almost every

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Allawi’s list not comfortable with Sayirun allying with Fatih’s ‘armed wings’

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — An official from the Wataniya list led by Ayad Allawi, says that Sayirun allying with Fatih violates an earlier coalition which was forged between them and Muqtada al-Sadr’s list.

Haider Mulla of Wataniya said on Saturday that Sayirun’s alliance with Fatih will affect their current agreement with Sayirun because they reject “armed wings” — a reference to Fatih which includes Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi leaders close to Iran.

Sayirun, which ran with the Communist Party of Iraq, won the most seats in Iraq’s parliamentary election on May 12.

Last week Sayirun announced it was allying with second-place finisher Hadi al-Amiri’s Fatih, the head of Badr Organization. Sayirun was already in an alliance with Wataniya and Hikma.
Outspoken Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sayirun alliance, the National Hikma or Wisdom Movement led by Ammar al-Hakim, and the al-Wataniya list led by Shiite secularist Ayad Allawi and influential Sunni politician Salim al-Jabouri collectively secured 94 seats in the parliamentary election on May 12.

The results of the election remain contested.

Sadr said afterward that his alliance with Hikma and Wataniya remains.

“Al-Wataniya did not ratify any alliance with Sayirun or Hikma, but that there are dialogues in the general framework, and we had agreed to… rule out militias,” said Mulla.

At the time of their negotiations the Sayirun said they would forge an alliance only with Badr Organization within Fatih, not the whole list.

“Thus Sayirun’s alliance with the Fatih Alliance as a whole, affects our alliance with them,” said Mulla.

Official Fatih Alliance spokesman, Ahmad al-Asadi said that their alliance with Sadr, “does not rule out anyone, and will be the basis for the formation of a national service government.”

“But whoever does not fit with our program and see it as contrary to their programs has the right to take the opposition’s side,” added Asadi.
At the time of making the alliance with Fatih on June 12, Sadr said: “Our new alliance is a national alliance within the framework of patriotism.”

Allawi is a former prime minister in Iraq and currently one of three vice presidents.

To form a new government, a coalition of 165 seats is needed out of the 329 in parliament.

Article Credit: Rudaw.net

BGG ~ Sadr may be about ready to get a lesson in Iraqi politics…

This is the very misstep Abadi made early on. An alliance with the Shia PMU’s (Ameri) nearly cost him everything.

It took about 2.3 seconds to BLOW UP IN HIS FACE.

I’m not sure Abadi isn’t sitting off to the side with a little grin – saying something like… “I wouldn’t do that if I were you…”

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Iraqi militias, US make nice following elections

Many Shiite armed factions in Iraq haven’t been threatening the United States of late, especially since they fared so well in the May 12 elections, receiving the second-most number of parliament seats. The shift indicates a possible rapprochement between the two sides, albeit undeclared.

Some militias of the Iran-backed, mostly Shiite, Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Iraq seem to be working to end the hostility toward Washington. Some indication of this was seen during the recent International Quds Day protests, which were organized by armed Shiite factions close to Iran in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The rallies were held June 8, marking the last Friday in the holy month of Ramadan, to show support for the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation. The Quds Day protests are an annual tradition that started in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late leader of the Islamic Revolution.

It has been the custom for protesters every year on Quds Day — and other occasions — to trample and burn the Israeli and American flags. This year, however, no American flags were destroyed or burned, and the protests did not include any slogans or threats against the United States.

On June 4, the Fatah Alliance invited several foreign ambassadors for iftar, the nightly fast-breaking meal during Ramadan. Photos from inside the alliance headquarters showed a meeting between alliance leader Hadi al-Amiri and US Ambassador to Iraq Douglas Silliman. Other ambassadors also were present.

It seems Amiri and some other PMU leaders are serious about rapprochement with the United States. This, however, has earned Amiri some criticism. Aws al-Khafaji, the head of the Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigades, made scathing comments against Amiri, saying, “Protesting [against the US Embassy move to] Jerusalem does not go hand in hand with a meeting with the American ambassador.”

Karim al-Nouri, a close Amiri associate, hinted that the PMU’s influential Badr Organization hasn’t ruled out any rapprochement or dialogue with the United States.

“There is no conflict between the PMU or any foreign state. The Jerusalem [Quds] Day is a public celebration, where people are free to express themselves the way they want to,” Nouri told Al-Monitor. “Not destroying the American flag doesn’t suggest good relations. Burning flags during protests doesn’t mean that [Iraq] is on the outs with [the United States]. We only have reservations about Israel.”

On the same day Silliman visited Amiri, he also met with the leader of the State of Law Coalition, Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki, who more than once has attacked the United States. Maliki is a PMU leader and claims to be its founder.

Silliman’s keenness to meet two PMU “leaders” in a single day is further evidence that the United States has been looking at some PMU principals as possible partners.

The United States doesn’t deal with the PMU as a whole institution, but rather with each faction separately. The United States is closest to Amiri, who in addition to leading the Fatah Alliance also heads the Badr Organization. “Amiri has been in contact with the United States via ongoing meetings in Baghdad,” said Rahman Aljebouri, a senior researcher at the National Endowment for Democracy.

“Both the United States and the factions that seek rapprochement will benefit from such a step. Washington, however, views the factions that have joined the political process and have a long political history to be the closest to it,” Aljebouri told Al-Monitor.

“The relations between the Badr Organization and the Americans have evolved through the ministries of Transport and Interior, which were [part of] Amiri’s party,” he added.

Aljebouri’s suggestion that the United States deals with PMU factions separately is backed up by the US Congress’ stance on the League of the Righteous (Asaib Ahl al-Haq). Though Asaib Ahl al-Haq is part of the PMU, the United States has talked about placing Asaib Ahl al-Haq on its terrorism list.

The Fatah Alliance issued a calm and unprovocative statement June 2 calling on Washington to “reconsider the political map that will give it an appropriate opportunity to establish balanced relations with Iraq.”

Yehya al-Kubaisi, an adviser to the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, told Al-Monitor, “The United States cannot deal with the PMU as a single unit. They [Americans] have always distinguished between what they call good and bad militias. The Badr Organization is under the good category, while the League of the Righteous and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba are categorized as bad. As for Iran, it believes that dealing with the former group of factions better serves its interests.”

He added, “The meeting between the US ambassador and Amiri happened at the same time the United States said it would classify the League of the Righteous and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba as terrorist organizations. This means that Iran and the United States are sending each other messages, using the PMU as a tool to do so.”

As things stand, rapprochement between some PMU leaders and the United States stands to benefit both parties. The United States needs to neutralize Iran’s role in these factions. The PMU, meanwhile, seeks to get rid of elements that might cause it to be categorized as a terrorist group or of having committed human rights violations.

Article Credit: al-monitor.com

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Post RV Checklist (it’s getting to be that time!! Listen up!!)

Dos and Don’ts of Windfall Wealth:

Treat it like a PowerBall win

– Tell no one, not even family. If you must talk, do so with one who is already in the know.

– Don’t run out & buy new “stuff”. People notice.

– Get an unpublished number and give it out very sparingly.

– Get a tax accountant you can trust to make sure the IRS is satisfied (Certified Opinion is something to look into) and pursue asset protection…

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BTI-project.org – Iraq

This is an excerpt from page 21 of this report…

8 | Currency and Price Stability

The government’s monetary policy since 2003 has focused on maintaining price stability and exchange rate predictability. The inflation has remained in the low since 2010. According to the CBI, the inflation rate is 1.4% (2015 estimates), while the World Bank estimates 2015 at -1.2%, and the country’s international reserve volume also has decreased due to the sharp decline in oil prices. The independence of the CBI suffered a setback in January 2011 when former Prime Minister al-Maliki won a court ruling that placed independent institutions, including the CBI, under the control of the cabinet. In January 2012, the CBI raised the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar to $1.19, causing a huge crisis that led the Supreme Judicial Council to issue an arrest warrant for CBI governor Sinan al-Shabibi in October 2012 on charges of corruption. Al-Shabibi received a seven-year prison sentence in absentia 2014, shortly before being acquitted of all charges. The difference between the official and parallel exchange increased from three percent in 2015 to nine percent in May 2016. The CBI introduced a number of policies to keep inflation low. The dinar remained widely stable and was worth $1.71 in early 2017.

Article Credit: BTI-project.org (Special Thanks to David Tiff Duke) 

BGG ~ I have searched this, sourced it and verified what it said… This is, in fact, what it said.

However, I am not entirely certain this is not referring to an “internal valuation” of what they believe the IQD to be worth according to their own financial metrics (the BTI project – that is…)

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Spokesman for Sadr: The doors are open to the coalition of Abadi and Kurds to join our alliance

Baghdad today – Judge Jaafar al-Moussawi, a spokesman for the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said Tuesday that the doors of the new alliance announced between the “conquest” and “Saron” open to the coalition of victory and the Kurds to join him.

“We have previous agreements with the wisdom (led by Ammar al-Hakim) and the national (led by Iyad Allawi),” Moussawi said in a brief statement.

The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr has announced, on Tuesday, the accession of the Fatah alliance to the tripartite alliance, which includes the national and wisdom to form the largest bloc.

Sadr said during a joint press conference with the leader of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri, held in the house of the first in Hananah Najaf, after a meeting of the parties, that “the alliance of conquest entered with others in the national space.”

He added that “the new alliance comes with the preservation of the tripartite alliance between Sawson and the National Coalition and the stream of wisdom.”

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, received earlier today, the head of the Fatah Alliance, Hadi al-Amiri, to discuss the crisis in the legislative elections held on 12 May, and the formation of the largest bloc in parliament.

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)
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Breitling (Dinar Guru) –  Phenomenal news out of Iraq.  What happened…is going to push the revaluation of the dinar that much quicker and that much more…Security council…letting the CBI out of sanctions that happen on June 6th or 7th…It’s a big deal for us.  There are a lot of entities and persons in Iraq that have been sanctioned and the CBI was one of them.  People don’t realize this.  The CBI could have revalued under the sanctions they were under.  All they had to do was reduce the note count.  So what does it mean for us?…[Post 1 of 2]

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State law: Maliki agreed to join the alliance of the Sadr government to form a “patriarchal” government!

The Euphrates – A source in the coalition of state law, said on Wednesday that the leader of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, the alliance with the “Saroon”, supported by the leader of the Sadrist movement, and “Fath” led by Secretary General of the Badr Organization Hadi al-Amiri, indicating that he will meet Amri this evening.

The source revealed that “the head of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri will visit the head of a coalition of law Nuri al-Maliki, this evening, to study the alliance between the conquest and the rest, considering Maliki is a key part.”

He added that “the meeting will discuss the moistening of the atmosphere between Nuri al-Maliki and the leader of the alliance of Sadr’s followers,” stressing that “Maliki agrees to enter the alliance and the conquest of the conquest and will be announced soon.” Yesterday, Sadr announced the accession of the Fath Alliance to move to form the largest bloc.

Article Credit: Alforat.info

BGG ~ This is how I read this…

Nowhere does it say Sadr is OK with Maliki in the group. That is a title and is based on the word of some SLC “source”. In fact, the timeline is that Ameri has started conversations with Sadr, Ameri will now meet with Maliki as he “is a part” of the Iranian axis of influence, and it sounds like to me – they are trying to “boot-strap” Maliki into the deal with Ameri after it has pretty much been done.

I don’t see this as some deep, meaningful alliance with Maliki. In fact, Abadi may well be wishing he had sent stronger signals earlier if this keeps on… OR – it could be the leverage Sadr needs to get Abadi off the “can” – so to speak.

Ty Walker – The pic looks photo shopped ..this maliki propaganda…he is despatate..fake news maliki..maybe you could get a job with CNN!!

BGG ~ That DOES look photo-shopped… I didn’t get that until you mentioned it. Pretty fishy.

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Security official: the disappearance of UNHCR warehouse guards after burning yesterday

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) – Revealed a security official in the Interior Ministry, the disappearance of the guards of the warehouses of the Electoral Commission, which saw on Sunday a fire on the side of Rusafa east of the capital Baghdad.

“The guards of the stores have disappeared and are being searched for, there are also visible acts of violence on the outer doors of stores that show that they were opened with iron hammers or any other machine and the place was breached and the fire started,” the official Al-Arabi newspaper, .

He pointed out that a large number of funds burned and can not know at the present time but the number of them were saved quite a few of them also by the civil defense and local residents of knearby houses on the stores contributed to the rescue, “stressing that” many boxes did not burn but destroyed by water ”

The warehouses of the Electoral Commission in the Rusafa side was exposed on Sunday, a huge fire while Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Saad Maan said that the stores containing the ballot boxes were not burned, adding that” the investigation is underway. “The

Minister of Interior , Qasim Araji, the safety of ballot boxes and that ” ”

The Baghdad Operations Command confirmed that the fire did not reach any ballot box and reached the counting devices and accelerate the results only,” noting that “the responsibility of the security forces are limited to protect the outer wall only to the storage centers of the Office and have no Work within the warehouses that are the competence of the Commission. ”

For its part, the Electoral Commission revealed that “the fire included all the hardware acceleration of the results and electronic verification devices of the Office of elections in Baghdad, Rusafa,” stressing that “the fire does not affect the election results.”

While Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi coincided with the fire with the day that the gangs occupied the terrorist city of Mosul, “a plot to strike the country and its democratic approach.”

Abadi ordered all the operations leaders in the provinces to tighten the security procedures for the warehouses of the Commission and increase the quotas allocated to protect them.

Article Credit: Alforatnews.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

Charles Bright – It must be hard to write stuff like this – even for script writers …

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Breitling (Dinar Guru) – It’s not a coincidence that Iraq got out of these sanctions knowing where the price per barrel is going to go and the next thing you know they’re out of these sanctions…  So they are not going to have as many US dollars because the price per barrel is going to go down.  What are they going to use?  They are going to use the Iraqi dinar.  So it’s a big huge deal for us.  They were going to revalue anyways but now they’re open to that much more of the market and the market is that much more open to them.   It was a huge weekend.  People should be excited.  This thing is going to come down…that’s reality….Everything is set in place.  They are going to revalue their currency.  They’re going to add value to it.  They are going to have to…  [Post 2 of 2]

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Abadi policy : Federal Court only decides to re-election

Twilight News – A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi said on Monday that only the Iraqi Federal Court, and not any other entity, can decide on the re-election of the parliamentary elections.

The Electoral Commission in Iraq, announced on Sunday that after the burning of ballot boxes on the side of Rusafa, that any action on the abolition of the elections or not has become in the court of the Federal Court.

A member of the Board of Commissioners, Saad Kakaee, said that the fires in the warehouses of the Commission is a terrible crime against the Iraqi voter, and the authorities concerned to take all procedures as soon as possible and investigate this crime, indicating that the causes and consequences of damage from the fire to this moment is unclear.

He added that the decision to cancel the elections after the fire is not in the hands of the Board of Commissioners, but in the hands of the Judicial Council and the Federal Court, and the decision is after knowing the size of the fire and the amount of the exhaustion of the votes of voters.
The fire broke out in the warehouses of the Iraqi Ministry of Commerce on Sunday afternoon, which contained ballot boxes for the May legislative elections.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri called, after the fires that erupted in dozens of ballot boxes, the need to re-election parliamentary elections.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Walkingstick (Dinar Guru) –   It’s important to understand Iraq has a seated government and Abadi is the Prime Minister.  The election recount is just about being caused by government officials who are the “spoiled brats, the sore losers.”   Sadr will appoint Abadi as Prime Minister for a second term. He will not wait for a recount.  The elections are over!  The elections have nothing to do with Iraqi Dinar re-in statement.  What you are now reading about in print like the UNSC release of ALL of the CBI’s frozen assets includes six to seven tons of gold. . . $81 Billion . . . those assets, even though frozen, accumulated interest  for so many years.  Iraq could have revalued before these assets were released but not at the rate they can since the release.  Enough funds IMO they can come out at over $3.00 . . .with a higher rate than we anticipated.

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Delta (Dinar Guru) –  The UN Security Council (UNSC) released all remaining sanctions of the last 16 years.  This means the rate can go back to over $3.00.  In 2003 the UN took Iraq’s currency, the dinar, down to 1/10 cent to prevent Sadaam from using funds for terrorism.  The frozen assets the UNSC released of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) were in the mega $$.   This is HUGE!  Iraq will have their currency in a 2% compliant rate for 90 days on June 15 as required by the IMF.  The Iraq currency needs to see re-instatment shortly. The revaluation is separate from the Iraq Elections.  Alak, the CBI governor has said, “Lift restrictions on exchange rate 1st half of 2018.”  CBI will pull the trigger either the last week of June or last 10 days of June.

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Sadr raises several questions about the fate of Iraq

Twilight News – The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr on Monday raised a number of questions on what appeared to be against the backdrop of the burning of ballot boxes in Baghdad, where he expressed his displeasure at the deterioration of the reality of political, security and economic situation in Iraq.

“Your Iraq is full of the poor, the oppressed, the orphans, the wounded, the bereaved, the widows, the elderly, the destitute and the disabled,” Sadr said in a statement.

“Your Iraq is without water, electricity, agriculture, industry, money, infrastructure, services, a good environment, no safe borders, and enemies will come to it from all sides,” he said.

He added that “Iraq is still the hallmarks of Baath and injustice and dictatorship is clear to him, Vvkkm struggle for the seats and positions and gains and influence, power and governance.”

“Is it time to stop the occupation and foreign influence?

Is it time to stop bombing, bombing and terrorism?

Is it time to stop conflicts and assassinations?

Is it time for Iraq to bring us honor, honor, brotherhood and peace?

Is it time for us to stand for construction and reconstruction instead of burning the ballot boxes or re-election from a seat or two?

But is it time to disarm and hand it over to the state instead of storing it in the mosques and the Husseiniat, and it will explode and reap the lives of the innocent?

Or is it time to take care of our money and our rights and carry out our duties towards the homeland and patriotism of faith?

.. How long will Iraq remain in the bottom of fear and lack of money and souls?

How long will some remain subjugated to the will of the foreigner and those behind the border? ”

On Sunday, fire broke out in warehouses used by the Iraqi Electoral Commission in Baghdad to keep ballot boxes in the last legislative elections.

The Electoral Commission has announced that the fire that hit the warehouses of ballot boxes will not indicate the results of the voting process.

This comes as preparations are under way for the counting and counting of the votes of about 10 million voters, following the detection of fraud and intimidation of the elections held on 12 May last.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com

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Some interesting headlines…

Sadr’s understanding with Allawi and Hakim waiting for Abadi

End of the meeting of the three presidencies and political leaders .. Jabbouri announced the details

BGG ~ So – let me get this straight… these guys have a meeting, set out a way to verify the results and move on, then someone who was in this meeting, doesn’t like the sound of things – and immediately (the next morning) tries to set fire to the ballot boxes (which would be used to further this effort).

Here’s my take – this is as close as Maliki will ever get to having his way again. Any one thing doesn’t go his way from here on in and he’s done for good.

Allawi .. Calls for the formation of a caretaker government and the re-election

BGG ~ Of course Allawi would say that – what does he have to lose? Did anyone notice he was the largest Sunni list with around 20 seats?? …out of 365 seats.

There are way more Sunnis than that in Iraq. Why is there such low representation? Pretty easy equation.

If I had to guess – there were a bunch of people in this meeting, Maliki included, who would like a different end result than they have right now. In fact, almost every

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Iraqi court orders arrest of ballot box storage site fire suspects

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – An Iraqi court has ordered the arrest of four people accused of setting fire to a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May parliamentary election, state television said on Monday.

Three of the suspects are policemen and one is an employee of the Independent High Elections Commission, state TV said. The storage site caught fire on Sunday.

Parliament had last week mandated a manual recount of the election after a number of political parties alleged fraud. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy in Cairo; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Article Credit: Reuters.com

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The Sadr Alliance vows to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul and sets a date for the prosecution and accountability of those involved

Baghdad today – Raed Fahmi, a leader of the alliance, “Saroon” backed by the leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, on Monday, open the file fall Mosul province, but the organization is calling, in 2014, while confirmed that the accountability of those responsible is inevitable.

Fahmi told Baghdad today that “what happened four years ago (the fall of Mosul) is a disaster in every sense of the word, and not only has it occupied the territories, but has caused great damage and loss to the lives and cities, which we continue to suffer from.”

He pointed out that “the current House of Representatives prepared an extensive report on the fall of Mosul, and we will open this file again and we will continue to hold accountable those involved in this disaster, which caused a major node in the history of contemporary Iraq in the next parliamentary session.”

He added that “it is not reasonable all this period, the file remains absent and without taking actual measures and reality in the light of the report prepared by the House of Representatives,” explaining that “missing the file of the fall of Mosul all these years, is not without political or other pressures.”

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Treat it like a PowerBall win

– Tell no one, not even family. If you must talk, do so with one who is already in the know.

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Iraq’s former PM Nouri Al Maliki ‘not welcome’ in new government

Nationalist cleric Moqtada Al Sadr and Iran-backed militia leader Hadi Al Amiri have found common ground in excluding the former leader

There is no place for former Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki in the coalition to form Iraq’s next government, a spokesman for the recent election’s largest political bloc has said.

“Nouri Al Maliki is not welcome to join the coalition,” Dhiaa Al Assadi, a close aide to Shiite Cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, told The National.

Last month’s parliamentary elections saw electoral lists led by nationalist Mr Al Sadr and Iranian-backed militia chief Hadi Al Amiri win the largest number of seats. The two leaders announced their intention to form an alliance of their political blocs on Wednesday.

They called on other political groups to join them in a coalition. Notably absent from that invitation was Mr Al Maliki.

It appears a decisive set back for Mr Al Maliki, who in the past managed to cling to power despite rising unpopularity.

Mr Al Maliki took power in 2006 with the blessing of both the United States and Iran. But he rapidly alienated the country’s Sunni and Kurdish minorities by shutting them out of key security positions and undermining power-sharing agreements.

During the 2010 elections, a secular bloc headed by vice president Ayad Allawi won the most seats in parliament. But Tehran backed Mr Al Maliki to remain in power, who was able to form a “national unity” government with the help of Mr Al Sadr.

Mr Al Maliki was finally forced to step down in 2014 following the collapse of a third of Iraq’s military and police units in the face of an ISIS offensive which overran a third of the country. He immediately assumed the largely ceremonial role for vice president. He was replaced as premier by fellow Dawa Party member Haider Al Abadi.

As general secretary of the Dawa party, Mr Maliki has retained political influence, though his State of Law coalition performed bellow expectations in the recent elections, winning just 26 seats.

The blocs controlled by Mr Al Sadr and Mr Amiri control 101 seats, short of the 165 required to form a majority.

Mr Al Sadr’s Sairoun alliance, which also includes the Communist Party and secular candidates, won 54 seats, while Mr Amiri’s Fatah coalition of Shiite paramilitaries won 47 seats.

Incumbent Prime Minister Abadi’s Victory alliance took 42 seats.

“His Eminence [Mr Al Sadr] has always welcomed Dr Al Abadi to join his coalition,” Mr Al Assadi said.

The Shiite cleric has previously vowed that he would not allow Mr Maliki another term as prime minister.

Even his former backers in Tehran may have given up on him. “Nouri Al Maliki was Iran’s best person but they accept that he’s not part of the next government because of the instability caused” during his time in power, Renad Mansour, senior research fellow at London’s Chatham House, told The National.

“Al Sadr’s stance has been to side-line Nouri Al Maliki,” he added.

Mr Al Sadr’s strong election performance marked the culmination of years of speaking out against corruption and government mismanagement.

He first built his name outside of mainstream politics, as the head of the Mehdi Army militia which fought against the US occupation using sophisticated bombs likely supplied by the Iranians. But he has remained a staunch nationalist, critical of Iranian interference in Iraq.

For his proposed coalition to succeed, Mr Al Sadr will need to overcome grievances from members of his own bloc who insist Tehran should not be permitted to interfere in Iraq’s affairs.

Iran backs Mr Al Amiri, a militia leader who spent two decades fighting former dictator Saddam Hussein from Iran. He is also close to General Qassem Soleimani, commander of foreign operations for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who has great influence in Iraq.
Article Credit: Thenational.ae (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

Charles Bright – NAILED IT!!

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Spokesman for Sadr: The doors are open to the coalition of Abadi and Kurds to join our alliance

Baghdad today – Judge Jaafar al-Moussawi, a spokesman for the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said Tuesday that the doors of the new alliance announced between the “conquest” and “Saron” open to the coalition of victory and the Kurds to join him.

“We have previous agreements with the wisdom (led by Ammar al-Hakim) and the national (led by Iyad Allawi),” Moussawi said in a brief statement.

The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr has announced, on Tuesday, the accession of the Fatah alliance to the tripartite alliance, which includes the national and wisdom to form the largest bloc.

Sadr said during a joint press conference with the leader of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri, held in the house of the first in Hananah Najaf, after a meeting of the parties, that “the alliance of conquest entered with others in the national space.”

He added that “the new alliance comes with the preservation of the tripartite alliance between Sawson and the National Coalition and the stream of wisdom.”

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, received earlier today, the head of the Fatah Alliance, Hadi al-Amiri, to discuss the crisis in the legislative elections held on 12 May, and the formation of the largest bloc in parliament.

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)
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Breitling (Dinar Guru) –  Phenomenal news out of Iraq.  What happened…is going to push the revaluation of the dinar that much quicker and that much more…Security council…letting the CBI out of sanctions that happen on June 6th or 7th…It’s a big deal for us.  There are a lot of entities and persons in Iraq that have been sanctioned and the CBI was one of them.  People don’t realize this.  The CBI could have revalued under the sanctions they were under.  All they had to do was reduce the note count.  So what does it mean for us?…[Post 1 of 2]

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State law: Maliki agreed to join the alliance of the Sadr government to form a “patriarchal” government!

The Euphrates – A source in the coalition of state law, said on Wednesday that the leader of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, the alliance with the “Saroon”, supported by the leader of the Sadrist movement, and “Fath” led by Secretary General of the Badr Organization Hadi al-Amiri, indicating that he will meet Amri this evening.

The source revealed that “the head of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri will visit the head of a coalition of law Nuri al-Maliki, this evening, to study the alliance between the conquest and the rest, considering Maliki is a key part.”

He added that “the meeting will discuss the moistening of the atmosphere between Nuri al-Maliki and the leader of the alliance of Sadr’s followers,” stressing that “Maliki agrees to enter the alliance and the conquest of the conquest and will be announced soon.” Yesterday, Sadr announced the accession of the Fath Alliance to move to form the largest bloc.

Article Credit: Alforat.info

BGG ~ This is how I read this…

Nowhere does it say Sadr is OK with Maliki in the group. That is a title and is based on the word of some SLC “source”. In fact, the timeline is that Ameri has started conversations with Sadr, Ameri will now meet with Maliki as he “is a part” of the Iranian axis of influence, and it sounds like to me – they are trying to “boot-strap” Maliki into the deal with Ameri after it has pretty much been done.

I don’t see this as some deep, meaningful alliance with Maliki. In fact, Abadi may well be wishing he had sent stronger signals earlier if this keeps on… OR – it could be the leverage Sadr needs to get Abadi off the “can” – so to speak.

Ty Walker – The pic looks photo shopped ..this maliki propaganda…he is despatate..fake news maliki..maybe you could get a job with CNN!!

BGG ~ That DOES look photo-shopped… I didn’t get that until you mentioned it. Pretty fishy.

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Security official: the disappearance of UNHCR warehouse guards after burning yesterday

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) – Revealed a security official in the Interior Ministry, the disappearance of the guards of the warehouses of the Electoral Commission, which saw on Sunday a fire on the side of Rusafa east of the capital Baghdad.

“The guards of the stores have disappeared and are being searched for, there are also visible acts of violence on the outer doors of stores that show that they were opened with iron hammers or any other machine and the place was breached and the fire started,” the official Al-Arabi newspaper, .

He pointed out that a large number of funds burned and can not know at the present time but the number of them were saved quite a few of them also by the civil defense and local residents of knearby houses on the stores contributed to the rescue, “stressing that” many boxes did not burn but destroyed by water ”

The warehouses of the Electoral Commission in the Rusafa side was exposed on Sunday, a huge fire while Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Saad Maan said that the stores containing the ballot boxes were not burned, adding that” the investigation is underway. “The

Minister of Interior , Qasim Araji, the safety of ballot boxes and that ” ”

The Baghdad Operations Command confirmed that the fire did not reach any ballot box and reached the counting devices and accelerate the results only,” noting that “the responsibility of the security forces are limited to protect the outer wall only to the storage centers of the Office and have no Work within the warehouses that are the competence of the Commission. ”

For its part, the Electoral Commission revealed that “the fire included all the hardware acceleration of the results and electronic verification devices of the Office of elections in Baghdad, Rusafa,” stressing that “the fire does not affect the election results.”

While Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi coincided with the fire with the day that the gangs occupied the terrorist city of Mosul, “a plot to strike the country and its democratic approach.”

Abadi ordered all the operations leaders in the provinces to tighten the security procedures for the warehouses of the Commission and increase the quotas allocated to protect them.

Article Credit: Alforatnews.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

Charles Bright – It must be hard to write stuff like this – even for script writers …

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Breitling (Dinar Guru) – It’s not a coincidence that Iraq got out of these sanctions knowing where the price per barrel is going to go and the next thing you know they’re out of these sanctions…  So they are not going to have as many US dollars because the price per barrel is going to go down.  What are they going to use?  They are going to use the Iraqi dinar.  So it’s a big huge deal for us.  They were going to revalue anyways but now they’re open to that much more of the market and the market is that much more open to them.   It was a huge weekend.  People should be excited.  This thing is going to come down…that’s reality….Everything is set in place.  They are going to revalue their currency.  They’re going to add value to it.  They are going to have to…  [Post 2 of 2]

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Abadi policy : Federal Court only decides to re-election

Twilight News – A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi said on Monday that only the Iraqi Federal Court, and not any other entity, can decide on the re-election of the parliamentary elections.

The Electoral Commission in Iraq, announced on Sunday that after the burning of ballot boxes on the side of Rusafa, that any action on the abolition of the elections or not has become in the court of the Federal Court.

A member of the Board of Commissioners, Saad Kakaee, said that the fires in the warehouses of the Commission is a terrible crime against the Iraqi voter, and the authorities concerned to take all procedures as soon as possible and investigate this crime, indicating that the causes and consequences of damage from the fire to this moment is unclear.

He added that the decision to cancel the elections after the fire is not in the hands of the Board of Commissioners, but in the hands of the Judicial Council and the Federal Court, and the decision is after knowing the size of the fire and the amount of the exhaustion of the votes of voters.
The fire broke out in the warehouses of the Iraqi Ministry of Commerce on Sunday afternoon, which contained ballot boxes for the May legislative elections.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri called, after the fires that erupted in dozens of ballot boxes, the need to re-election parliamentary elections.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Walkingstick (Dinar Guru) –   It’s important to understand Iraq has a seated government and Abadi is the Prime Minister.  The election recount is just about being caused by government officials who are the “spoiled brats, the sore losers.”   Sadr will appoint Abadi as Prime Minister for a second term. He will not wait for a recount.  The elections are over!  The elections have nothing to do with Iraqi Dinar re-in statement.  What you are now reading about in print like the UNSC release of ALL of the CBI’s frozen assets includes six to seven tons of gold. . . $81 Billion . . . those assets, even though frozen, accumulated interest  for so many years.  Iraq could have revalued before these assets were released but not at the rate they can since the release.  Enough funds IMO they can come out at over $3.00 . . .with a higher rate than we anticipated.

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Delta (Dinar Guru) –  The UN Security Council (UNSC) released all remaining sanctions of the last 16 years.  This means the rate can go back to over $3.00.  In 2003 the UN took Iraq’s currency, the dinar, down to 1/10 cent to prevent Sadaam from using funds for terrorism.  The frozen assets the UNSC released of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) were in the mega $$.   This is HUGE!  Iraq will have their currency in a 2% compliant rate for 90 days on June 15 as required by the IMF.  The Iraq currency needs to see re-instatment shortly. The revaluation is separate from the Iraq Elections.  Alak, the CBI governor has said, “Lift restrictions on exchange rate 1st half of 2018.”  CBI will pull the trigger either the last week of June or last 10 days of June.

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Sadr raises several questions about the fate of Iraq

Twilight News – The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr on Monday raised a number of questions on what appeared to be against the backdrop of the burning of ballot boxes in Baghdad, where he expressed his displeasure at the deterioration of the reality of political, security and economic situation in Iraq.

“Your Iraq is full of the poor, the oppressed, the orphans, the wounded, the bereaved, the widows, the elderly, the destitute and the disabled,” Sadr said in a statement.

“Your Iraq is without water, electricity, agriculture, industry, money, infrastructure, services, a good environment, no safe borders, and enemies will come to it from all sides,” he said.

He added that “Iraq is still the hallmarks of Baath and injustice and dictatorship is clear to him, Vvkkm struggle for the seats and positions and gains and influence, power and governance.”

“Is it time to stop the occupation and foreign influence?

Is it time to stop bombing, bombing and terrorism?

Is it time to stop conflicts and assassinations?

Is it time for Iraq to bring us honor, honor, brotherhood and peace?

Is it time for us to stand for construction and reconstruction instead of burning the ballot boxes or re-election from a seat or two?

But is it time to disarm and hand it over to the state instead of storing it in the mosques and the Husseiniat, and it will explode and reap the lives of the innocent?

Or is it time to take care of our money and our rights and carry out our duties towards the homeland and patriotism of faith?

.. How long will Iraq remain in the bottom of fear and lack of money and souls?

How long will some remain subjugated to the will of the foreigner and those behind the border? ”

On Sunday, fire broke out in warehouses used by the Iraqi Electoral Commission in Baghdad to keep ballot boxes in the last legislative elections.

The Electoral Commission has announced that the fire that hit the warehouses of ballot boxes will not indicate the results of the voting process.

This comes as preparations are under way for the counting and counting of the votes of about 10 million voters, following the detection of fraud and intimidation of the elections held on 12 May last.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com

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Some interesting headlines…

Sadr’s understanding with Allawi and Hakim waiting for Abadi

End of the meeting of the three presidencies and political leaders .. Jabbouri announced the details

BGG ~ So – let me get this straight… these guys have a meeting, set out a way to verify the results and move on, then someone who was in this meeting, doesn’t like the sound of things – and immediately (the next morning) tries to set fire to the ballot boxes (which would be used to further this effort).

Here’s my take – this is as close as Maliki will ever get to having his way again. Any one thing doesn’t go his way from here on in and he’s done for good.

Allawi .. Calls for the formation of a caretaker government and the re-election

BGG ~ Of course Allawi would say that – what does he have to lose? Did anyone notice he was the largest Sunni list with around 20 seats?? …out of 365 seats.

There are way more Sunnis than that in Iraq. Why is there such low representation? Pretty easy equation.

If I had to guess – there were a bunch of people in this meeting, Maliki included, who would like a different end result than they have right now. In fact, almost every

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Iraqi court orders arrest of ballot box storage site fire suspects

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – An Iraqi court has ordered the arrest of four people accused of setting fire to a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May parliamentary election, state television said on Monday.

Three of the suspects are policemen and one is an employee of the Independent High Elections Commission, state TV said. The storage site caught fire on Sunday.

Parliament had last week mandated a manual recount of the election after a number of political parties alleged fraud. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy in Cairo; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Article Credit: Reuters.com

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The Sadr Alliance vows to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul and sets a date for the prosecution and accountability of those involved

Baghdad today – Raed Fahmi, a leader of the alliance, “Saroon” backed by the leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, on Monday, open the file fall Mosul province, but the organization is calling, in 2014, while confirmed that the accountability of those responsible is inevitable.

Fahmi told Baghdad today that “what happened four years ago (the fall of Mosul) is a disaster in every sense of the word, and not only has it occupied the territories, but has caused great damage and loss to the lives and cities, which we continue to suffer from.”

He pointed out that “the current House of Representatives prepared an extensive report on the fall of Mosul, and we will open this file again and we will continue to hold accountable those involved in this disaster, which caused a major node in the history of contemporary Iraq in the next parliamentary session.”

He added that “it is not reasonable all this period, the file remains absent and without taking actual measures and reality in the light of the report prepared by the House of Representatives,” explaining that “missing the file of the fall of Mosul all these years, is not without political or other pressures.”

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Treat it like a PowerBall win

– Tell no one, not even family. If you must talk, do so with one who is already in the know.

– Don’t run out & buy new “stuff”. People notice.

– Get an unpublished number and give it out very sparingly.

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Iraq’s former PM Nouri Al Maliki ‘not welcome’ in new government

Nationalist cleric Moqtada Al Sadr and Iran-backed militia leader Hadi Al Amiri have found common ground in excluding the former leader

There is no place for former Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki in the coalition to form Iraq’s next government, a spokesman for the recent election’s largest political bloc has said.

“Nouri Al Maliki is not welcome to join the coalition,” Dhiaa Al Assadi, a close aide to Shiite Cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, told The National.

Last month’s parliamentary elections saw electoral lists led by nationalist Mr Al Sadr and Iranian-backed militia chief Hadi Al Amiri win the largest number of seats. The two leaders announced their intention to form an alliance of their political blocs on Wednesday.

They called on other political groups to join them in a coalition. Notably absent from that invitation was Mr Al Maliki.

It appears a decisive set back for Mr Al Maliki, who in the past managed to cling to power despite rising unpopularity.

Mr Al Maliki took power in 2006 with the blessing of both the United States and Iran. But he rapidly alienated the country’s Sunni and Kurdish minorities by shutting them out of key security positions and undermining power-sharing agreements.

During the 2010 elections, a secular bloc headed by vice president Ayad Allawi won the most seats in parliament. But Tehran backed Mr Al Maliki to remain in power, who was able to form a “national unity” government with the help of Mr Al Sadr.

Mr Al Maliki was finally forced to step down in 2014 following the collapse of a third of Iraq’s military and police units in the face of an ISIS offensive which overran a third of the country. He immediately assumed the largely ceremonial role for vice president. He was replaced as premier by fellow Dawa Party member Haider Al Abadi.

As general secretary of the Dawa party, Mr Maliki has retained political influence, though his State of Law coalition performed bellow expectations in the recent elections, winning just 26 seats.

The blocs controlled by Mr Al Sadr and Mr Amiri control 101 seats, short of the 165 required to form a majority.

Mr Al Sadr’s Sairoun alliance, which also includes the Communist Party and secular candidates, won 54 seats, while Mr Amiri’s Fatah coalition of Shiite paramilitaries won 47 seats.

Incumbent Prime Minister Abadi’s Victory alliance took 42 seats.

“His Eminence [Mr Al Sadr] has always welcomed Dr Al Abadi to join his coalition,” Mr Al Assadi said.

The Shiite cleric has previously vowed that he would not allow Mr Maliki another term as prime minister.

Even his former backers in Tehran may have given up on him. “Nouri Al Maliki was Iran’s best person but they accept that he’s not part of the next government because of the instability caused” during his time in power, Renad Mansour, senior research fellow at London’s Chatham House, told The National.

“Al Sadr’s stance has been to side-line Nouri Al Maliki,” he added.

Mr Al Sadr’s strong election performance marked the culmination of years of speaking out against corruption and government mismanagement.

He first built his name outside of mainstream politics, as the head of the Mehdi Army militia which fought against the US occupation using sophisticated bombs likely supplied by the Iranians. But he has remained a staunch nationalist, critical of Iranian interference in Iraq.

For his proposed coalition to succeed, Mr Al Sadr will need to overcome grievances from members of his own bloc who insist Tehran should not be permitted to interfere in Iraq’s affairs.

Iran backs Mr Al Amiri, a militia leader who spent two decades fighting former dictator Saddam Hussein from Iran. He is also close to General Qassem Soleimani, commander of foreign operations for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who has great influence in Iraq.
Article Credit: Thenational.ae (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

Charles Bright – NAILED IT!!

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Spokesman for Sadr: The doors are open to the coalition of Abadi and Kurds to join our alliance

Baghdad today – Judge Jaafar al-Moussawi, a spokesman for the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said Tuesday that the doors of the new alliance announced between the “conquest” and “Saron” open to the coalition of victory and the Kurds to join him.

“We have previous agreements with the wisdom (led by Ammar al-Hakim) and the national (led by Iyad Allawi),” Moussawi said in a brief statement.

The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr has announced, on Tuesday, the accession of the Fatah alliance to the tripartite alliance, which includes the national and wisdom to form the largest bloc.

Sadr said during a joint press conference with the leader of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri, held in the house of the first in Hananah Najaf, after a meeting of the parties, that “the alliance of conquest entered with others in the national space.”

He added that “the new alliance comes with the preservation of the tripartite alliance between Sawson and the National Coalition and the stream of wisdom.”

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, received earlier today, the head of the Fatah Alliance, Hadi al-Amiri, to discuss the crisis in the legislative elections held on 12 May, and the formation of the largest bloc in parliament.

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)
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Breitling (Dinar Guru) –  Phenomenal news out of Iraq.  What happened…is going to push the revaluation of the dinar that much quicker and that much more…Security council…letting the CBI out of sanctions that happen on June 6th or 7th…It’s a big deal for us.  There are a lot of entities and persons in Iraq that have been sanctioned and the CBI was one of them.  People don’t realize this.  The CBI could have revalued under the sanctions they were under.  All they had to do was reduce the note count.  So what does it mean for us?…[Post 1 of 2]

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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State law: Maliki agreed to join the alliance of the Sadr government to form a “patriarchal” government!

The Euphrates – A source in the coalition of state law, said on Wednesday that the leader of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, the alliance with the “Saroon”, supported by the leader of the Sadrist movement, and “Fath” led by Secretary General of the Badr Organization Hadi al-Amiri, indicating that he will meet Amri this evening.

The source revealed that “the head of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri will visit the head of a coalition of law Nuri al-Maliki, this evening, to study the alliance between the conquest and the rest, considering Maliki is a key part.”

He added that “the meeting will discuss the moistening of the atmosphere between Nuri al-Maliki and the leader of the alliance of Sadr’s followers,” stressing that “Maliki agrees to enter the alliance and the conquest of the conquest and will be announced soon.” Yesterday, Sadr announced the accession of the Fath Alliance to move to form the largest bloc.

Article Credit: Alforat.info

BGG ~ This is how I read this…

Nowhere does it say Sadr is OK with Maliki in the group. That is a title and is based on the word of some SLC “source”. In fact, the timeline is that Ameri has started conversations with Sadr, Ameri will now meet with Maliki as he “is a part” of the Iranian axis of influence, and it sounds like to me – they are trying to “boot-strap” Maliki into the deal with Ameri after it has pretty much been done.

I don’t see this as some deep, meaningful alliance with Maliki. In fact, Abadi may well be wishing he had sent stronger signals earlier if this keeps on… OR – it could be the leverage Sadr needs to get Abadi off the “can” – so to speak.

Ty Walker – The pic looks photo shopped ..this maliki propaganda…he is despatate..fake news maliki..maybe you could get a job with CNN!!

BGG ~ That DOES look photo-shopped… I didn’t get that until you mentioned it. Pretty fishy.

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Security official: the disappearance of UNHCR warehouse guards after burning yesterday

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) – Revealed a security official in the Interior Ministry, the disappearance of the guards of the warehouses of the Electoral Commission, which saw on Sunday a fire on the side of Rusafa east of the capital Baghdad.

“The guards of the stores have disappeared and are being searched for, there are also visible acts of violence on the outer doors of stores that show that they were opened with iron hammers or any other machine and the place was breached and the fire started,” the official Al-Arabi newspaper, .

He pointed out that a large number of funds burned and can not know at the present time but the number of them were saved quite a few of them also by the civil defense and local residents of knearby houses on the stores contributed to the rescue, “stressing that” many boxes did not burn but destroyed by water ”

The warehouses of the Electoral Commission in the Rusafa side was exposed on Sunday, a huge fire while Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Saad Maan said that the stores containing the ballot boxes were not burned, adding that” the investigation is underway. “The

Minister of Interior , Qasim Araji, the safety of ballot boxes and that ” ”

The Baghdad Operations Command confirmed that the fire did not reach any ballot box and reached the counting devices and accelerate the results only,” noting that “the responsibility of the security forces are limited to protect the outer wall only to the storage centers of the Office and have no Work within the warehouses that are the competence of the Commission. ”

For its part, the Electoral Commission revealed that “the fire included all the hardware acceleration of the results and electronic verification devices of the Office of elections in Baghdad, Rusafa,” stressing that “the fire does not affect the election results.”

While Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi coincided with the fire with the day that the gangs occupied the terrorist city of Mosul, “a plot to strike the country and its democratic approach.”

Abadi ordered all the operations leaders in the provinces to tighten the security procedures for the warehouses of the Commission and increase the quotas allocated to protect them.

Article Credit: Alforatnews.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

Charles Bright – It must be hard to write stuff like this – even for script writers …

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Breitling (Dinar Guru) – It’s not a coincidence that Iraq got out of these sanctions knowing where the price per barrel is going to go and the next thing you know they’re out of these sanctions…  So they are not going to have as many US dollars because the price per barrel is going to go down.  What are they going to use?  They are going to use the Iraqi dinar.  So it’s a big huge deal for us.  They were going to revalue anyways but now they’re open to that much more of the market and the market is that much more open to them.   It was a huge weekend.  People should be excited.  This thing is going to come down…that’s reality….Everything is set in place.  They are going to revalue their currency.  They’re going to add value to it.  They are going to have to…  [Post 2 of 2]

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Abadi policy : Federal Court only decides to re-election

Twilight News – A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi said on Monday that only the Iraqi Federal Court, and not any other entity, can decide on the re-election of the parliamentary elections.

The Electoral Commission in Iraq, announced on Sunday that after the burning of ballot boxes on the side of Rusafa, that any action on the abolition of the elections or not has become in the court of the Federal Court.

A member of the Board of Commissioners, Saad Kakaee, said that the fires in the warehouses of the Commission is a terrible crime against the Iraqi voter, and the authorities concerned to take all procedures as soon as possible and investigate this crime, indicating that the causes and consequences of damage from the fire to this moment is unclear.

He added that the decision to cancel the elections after the fire is not in the hands of the Board of Commissioners, but in the hands of the Judicial Council and the Federal Court, and the decision is after knowing the size of the fire and the amount of the exhaustion of the votes of voters.
The fire broke out in the warehouses of the Iraqi Ministry of Commerce on Sunday afternoon, which contained ballot boxes for the May legislative elections.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri called, after the fires that erupted in dozens of ballot boxes, the need to re-election parliamentary elections.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Walkingstick (Dinar Guru) –   It’s important to understand Iraq has a seated government and Abadi is the Prime Minister.  The election recount is just about being caused by government officials who are the “spoiled brats, the sore losers.”   Sadr will appoint Abadi as Prime Minister for a second term. He will not wait for a recount.  The elections are over!  The elections have nothing to do with Iraqi Dinar re-in statement.  What you are now reading about in print like the UNSC release of ALL of the CBI’s frozen assets includes six to seven tons of gold. . . $81 Billion . . . those assets, even though frozen, accumulated interest  for so many years.  Iraq could have revalued before these assets were released but not at the rate they can since the release.  Enough funds IMO they can come out at over $3.00 . . .with a higher rate than we anticipated.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Delta (Dinar Guru) –  The UN Security Council (UNSC) released all remaining sanctions of the last 16 years.  This means the rate can go back to over $3.00.  In 2003 the UN took Iraq’s currency, the dinar, down to 1/10 cent to prevent Sadaam from using funds for terrorism.  The frozen assets the UNSC released of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) were in the mega $$.   This is HUGE!  Iraq will have their currency in a 2% compliant rate for 90 days on June 15 as required by the IMF.  The Iraq currency needs to see re-instatment shortly. The revaluation is separate from the Iraq Elections.  Alak, the CBI governor has said, “Lift restrictions on exchange rate 1st half of 2018.”  CBI will pull the trigger either the last week of June or last 10 days of June.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Sadr raises several questions about the fate of Iraq

Twilight News – The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr on Monday raised a number of questions on what appeared to be against the backdrop of the burning of ballot boxes in Baghdad, where he expressed his displeasure at the deterioration of the reality of political, security and economic situation in Iraq.

“Your Iraq is full of the poor, the oppressed, the orphans, the wounded, the bereaved, the widows, the elderly, the destitute and the disabled,” Sadr said in a statement.

“Your Iraq is without water, electricity, agriculture, industry, money, infrastructure, services, a good environment, no safe borders, and enemies will come to it from all sides,” he said.

He added that “Iraq is still the hallmarks of Baath and injustice and dictatorship is clear to him, Vvkkm struggle for the seats and positions and gains and influence, power and governance.”

“Is it time to stop the occupation and foreign influence?

Is it time to stop bombing, bombing and terrorism?

Is it time to stop conflicts and assassinations?

Is it time for Iraq to bring us honor, honor, brotherhood and peace?

Is it time for us to stand for construction and reconstruction instead of burning the ballot boxes or re-election from a seat or two?

But is it time to disarm and hand it over to the state instead of storing it in the mosques and the Husseiniat, and it will explode and reap the lives of the innocent?

Or is it time to take care of our money and our rights and carry out our duties towards the homeland and patriotism of faith?

.. How long will Iraq remain in the bottom of fear and lack of money and souls?

How long will some remain subjugated to the will of the foreigner and those behind the border? ”

On Sunday, fire broke out in warehouses used by the Iraqi Electoral Commission in Baghdad to keep ballot boxes in the last legislative elections.

The Electoral Commission has announced that the fire that hit the warehouses of ballot boxes will not indicate the results of the voting process.

This comes as preparations are under way for the counting and counting of the votes of about 10 million voters, following the detection of fraud and intimidation of the elections held on 12 May last.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com

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Some interesting headlines…

Sadr’s understanding with Allawi and Hakim waiting for Abadi

End of the meeting of the three presidencies and political leaders .. Jabbouri announced the details

BGG ~ So – let me get this straight… these guys have a meeting, set out a way to verify the results and move on, then someone who was in this meeting, doesn’t like the sound of things – and immediately (the next morning) tries to set fire to the ballot boxes (which would be used to further this effort).

Here’s my take – this is as close as Maliki will ever get to having his way again. Any one thing doesn’t go his way from here on in and he’s done for good.

Allawi .. Calls for the formation of a caretaker government and the re-election

BGG ~ Of course Allawi would say that – what does he have to lose? Did anyone notice he was the largest Sunni list with around 20 seats?? …out of 365 seats.

There are way more Sunnis than that in Iraq. Why is there such low representation? Pretty easy equation.

If I had to guess – there were a bunch of people in this meeting, Maliki included, who would like a different end result than they have right now. In fact, almost every

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Iraqi court orders arrest of ballot box storage site fire suspects

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – An Iraqi court has ordered the arrest of four people accused of setting fire to a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May parliamentary election, state television said on Monday.

Three of the suspects are policemen and one is an employee of the Independent High Elections Commission, state TV said. The storage site caught fire on Sunday.

Parliament had last week mandated a manual recount of the election after a number of political parties alleged fraud. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy in Cairo; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Article Credit: Reuters.com

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The Sadr Alliance vows to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul and sets a date for the prosecution and accountability of those involved

Baghdad today – Raed Fahmi, a leader of the alliance, “Saroon” backed by the leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, on Monday, open the file fall Mosul province, but the organization is calling, in 2014, while confirmed that the accountability of those responsible is inevitable.

Fahmi told Baghdad today that “what happened four years ago (the fall of Mosul) is a disaster in every sense of the word, and not only has it occupied the territories, but has caused great damage and loss to the lives and cities, which we continue to suffer from.”

He pointed out that “the current House of Representatives prepared an extensive report on the fall of Mosul, and we will open this file again and we will continue to hold accountable those involved in this disaster, which caused a major node in the history of contemporary Iraq in the next parliamentary session.”

He added that “it is not reasonable all this period, the file remains absent and without taking actual measures and reality in the light of the report prepared by the House of Representatives,” explaining that “missing the file of the fall of Mosul all these years, is not without political or other pressures.”

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Post RV Checklist (it’s getting to be that time!! Listen up!!)

Dos and Don’ts of Windfall Wealth:

Treat it like a PowerBall win

– Tell no one, not even family. If you must talk, do so with one who is already in the know.

– Don’t run out & buy new “stuff”. People notice.

– Get an unpublished number and give it out very sparingly.

– Get a tax accountant you can trust to make sure the IRS is satisfied (Certified Opinion is something to look into) and pursue asset protection…

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Spokesman for Sadr: The doors are open to the coalition of Abadi and Kurds to join our alliance

Baghdad today – Judge Jaafar al-Moussawi, a spokesman for the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said Tuesday that the doors of the new alliance announced between the “conquest” and “Saron” open to the coalition of victory and the Kurds to join him.

“We have previous agreements with the wisdom (led by Ammar al-Hakim) and the national (led by Iyad Allawi),” Moussawi said in a brief statement.

The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr has announced, on Tuesday, the accession of the Fatah alliance to the tripartite alliance, which includes the national and wisdom to form the largest bloc.

Sadr said during a joint press conference with the leader of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri, held in the house of the first in Hananah Najaf, after a meeting of the parties, that “the alliance of conquest entered with others in the national space.”

He added that “the new alliance comes with the preservation of the tripartite alliance between Sawson and the National Coalition and the stream of wisdom.”

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, received earlier today, the head of the Fatah Alliance, Hadi al-Amiri, to discuss the crisis in the legislative elections held on 12 May, and the formation of the largest bloc in parliament.

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)
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Abadi’s policy rejects the re-election and calls for the formation of a new government

Twilight News (Reuters) – Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday rejected his government’s refusal to re-run parliamentary elections in Iraq.

“There is no turning back and the elections have taken place and a new government must be formed,” Abadi told a weekly conference after his cabinet meeting with ministers.

“The cancellation of the elections needs a court order,” he said, adding that “it is not the power of the government and the parliament to cancel the election results.”

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com
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Breitling (Dinar Guru) –  Phenomenal news out of Iraq.  What happened…is going to push the revaluation of the dinar that much quicker and that much more…Security council…letting the CBI out of sanctions that happen on June 6th or 7th…It’s a big deal for us.  There are a lot of entities and persons in Iraq that have been sanctioned and the CBI was one of them.  People don’t realize this.  The CBI could have revalued under the sanctions they were under.  All they had to do was reduce the note count.  So what does it mean for us?…[Post 1 of 2]

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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State law: Maliki agreed to join the alliance of the Sadr government to form a “patriarchal” government!

The Euphrates – A source in the coalition of state law, said on Wednesday that the leader of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, the alliance with the “Saroon”, supported by the leader of the Sadrist movement, and “Fath” led by Secretary General of the Badr Organization Hadi al-Amiri, indicating that he will meet Amri this evening.

The source revealed that “the head of the Fatah alliance Hadi al-Ameri will visit the head of a coalition of law Nuri al-Maliki, this evening, to study the alliance between the conquest and the rest, considering Maliki is a key part.”

He added that “the meeting will discuss the moistening of the atmosphere between Nuri al-Maliki and the leader of the alliance of Sadr’s followers,” stressing that “Maliki agrees to enter the alliance and the conquest of the conquest and will be announced soon.” Yesterday, Sadr announced the accession of the Fath Alliance to move to form the largest bloc.

Article Credit: Alforat.info

BGG ~ This is how I read this…

Nowhere does it say Sadr is OK with Maliki in the group. That is a title and is based on the word of some SLC “source”. In fact, the timeline is that Ameri has started conversations with Sadr, Ameri will now meet with Maliki as he “is a part” of the Iranian axis of influence, and it sounds like to me – they are trying to “boot-strap” Maliki into the deal with Ameri after it has pretty much been done.

I don’t see this as some deep, meaningful alliance with Maliki. In fact, Abadi may well be wishing he had sent stronger signals earlier if this keeps on… OR – it could be the leverage Sadr needs to get Abadi off the “can” – so to speak.

Ty Walker – The pic looks photo shopped ..this maliki propaganda…he is despatate..fake news maliki..maybe you could get a job with CNN!!

BGG ~ That DOES look photo-shopped… I didn’t get that until you mentioned it. Pretty fishy.

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Security official: the disappearance of UNHCR warehouse guards after burning yesterday

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) – Revealed a security official in the Interior Ministry, the disappearance of the guards of the warehouses of the Electoral Commission, which saw on Sunday a fire on the side of Rusafa east of the capital Baghdad.

“The guards of the stores have disappeared and are being searched for, there are also visible acts of violence on the outer doors of stores that show that they were opened with iron hammers or any other machine and the place was breached and the fire started,” the official Al-Arabi newspaper, .

He pointed out that a large number of funds burned and can not know at the present time but the number of them were saved quite a few of them also by the civil defense and local residents of knearby houses on the stores contributed to the rescue, “stressing that” many boxes did not burn but destroyed by water ”

The warehouses of the Electoral Commission in the Rusafa side was exposed on Sunday, a huge fire while Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Saad Maan said that the stores containing the ballot boxes were not burned, adding that” the investigation is underway. “The

Minister of Interior , Qasim Araji, the safety of ballot boxes and that ” ”

The Baghdad Operations Command confirmed that the fire did not reach any ballot box and reached the counting devices and accelerate the results only,” noting that “the responsibility of the security forces are limited to protect the outer wall only to the storage centers of the Office and have no Work within the warehouses that are the competence of the Commission. ”

For its part, the Electoral Commission revealed that “the fire included all the hardware acceleration of the results and electronic verification devices of the Office of elections in Baghdad, Rusafa,” stressing that “the fire does not affect the election results.”

While Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi coincided with the fire with the day that the gangs occupied the terrorist city of Mosul, “a plot to strike the country and its democratic approach.”

Abadi ordered all the operations leaders in the provinces to tighten the security procedures for the warehouses of the Commission and increase the quotas allocated to protect them.

Article Credit: Alforatnews.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

Charles Bright – It must be hard to write stuff like this – even for script writers …

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Breitling (Dinar Guru) – It’s not a coincidence that Iraq got out of these sanctions knowing where the price per barrel is going to go and the next thing you know they’re out of these sanctions…  So they are not going to have as many US dollars because the price per barrel is going to go down.  What are they going to use?  They are going to use the Iraqi dinar.  So it’s a big huge deal for us.  They were going to revalue anyways but now they’re open to that much more of the market and the market is that much more open to them.   It was a huge weekend.  People should be excited.  This thing is going to come down…that’s reality….Everything is set in place.  They are going to revalue their currency.  They’re going to add value to it.  They are going to have to…  [Post 2 of 2]

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Abadi policy : Federal Court only decides to re-election

Twilight News – A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi said on Monday that only the Iraqi Federal Court, and not any other entity, can decide on the re-election of the parliamentary elections.

The Electoral Commission in Iraq, announced on Sunday that after the burning of ballot boxes on the side of Rusafa, that any action on the abolition of the elections or not has become in the court of the Federal Court.

A member of the Board of Commissioners, Saad Kakaee, said that the fires in the warehouses of the Commission is a terrible crime against the Iraqi voter, and the authorities concerned to take all procedures as soon as possible and investigate this crime, indicating that the causes and consequences of damage from the fire to this moment is unclear.

He added that the decision to cancel the elections after the fire is not in the hands of the Board of Commissioners, but in the hands of the Judicial Council and the Federal Court, and the decision is after knowing the size of the fire and the amount of the exhaustion of the votes of voters.
The fire broke out in the warehouses of the Iraqi Ministry of Commerce on Sunday afternoon, which contained ballot boxes for the May legislative elections.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri called, after the fires that erupted in dozens of ballot boxes, the need to re-election parliamentary elections.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Walkingstick (Dinar Guru) –   It’s important to understand Iraq has a seated government and Abadi is the Prime Minister.  The election recount is just about being caused by government officials who are the “spoiled brats, the sore losers.”   Sadr will appoint Abadi as Prime Minister for a second term. He will not wait for a recount.  The elections are over!  The elections have nothing to do with Iraqi Dinar re-in statement.  What you are now reading about in print like the UNSC release of ALL of the CBI’s frozen assets includes six to seven tons of gold. . . $81 Billion . . . those assets, even though frozen, accumulated interest  for so many years.  Iraq could have revalued before these assets were released but not at the rate they can since the release.  Enough funds IMO they can come out at over $3.00 . . .with a higher rate than we anticipated.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
______________________________________________________________

Delta (Dinar Guru) –  The UN Security Council (UNSC) released all remaining sanctions of the last 16 years.  This means the rate can go back to over $3.00.  In 2003 the UN took Iraq’s currency, the dinar, down to 1/10 cent to prevent Sadaam from using funds for terrorism.  The frozen assets the UNSC released of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) were in the mega $$.   This is HUGE!  Iraq will have their currency in a 2% compliant rate for 90 days on June 15 as required by the IMF.  The Iraq currency needs to see re-instatment shortly. The revaluation is separate from the Iraq Elections.  Alak, the CBI governor has said, “Lift restrictions on exchange rate 1st half of 2018.”  CBI will pull the trigger either the last week of June or last 10 days of June.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Sadr raises several questions about the fate of Iraq

Twilight News – The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr on Monday raised a number of questions on what appeared to be against the backdrop of the burning of ballot boxes in Baghdad, where he expressed his displeasure at the deterioration of the reality of political, security and economic situation in Iraq.

“Your Iraq is full of the poor, the oppressed, the orphans, the wounded, the bereaved, the widows, the elderly, the destitute and the disabled,” Sadr said in a statement.

“Your Iraq is without water, electricity, agriculture, industry, money, infrastructure, services, a good environment, no safe borders, and enemies will come to it from all sides,” he said.

He added that “Iraq is still the hallmarks of Baath and injustice and dictatorship is clear to him, Vvkkm struggle for the seats and positions and gains and influence, power and governance.”

“Is it time to stop the occupation and foreign influence?

Is it time to stop bombing, bombing and terrorism?

Is it time to stop conflicts and assassinations?

Is it time for Iraq to bring us honor, honor, brotherhood and peace?

Is it time for us to stand for construction and reconstruction instead of burning the ballot boxes or re-election from a seat or two?

But is it time to disarm and hand it over to the state instead of storing it in the mosques and the Husseiniat, and it will explode and reap the lives of the innocent?

Or is it time to take care of our money and our rights and carry out our duties towards the homeland and patriotism of faith?

.. How long will Iraq remain in the bottom of fear and lack of money and souls?

How long will some remain subjugated to the will of the foreigner and those behind the border? ”

On Sunday, fire broke out in warehouses used by the Iraqi Electoral Commission in Baghdad to keep ballot boxes in the last legislative elections.

The Electoral Commission has announced that the fire that hit the warehouses of ballot boxes will not indicate the results of the voting process.

This comes as preparations are under way for the counting and counting of the votes of about 10 million voters, following the detection of fraud and intimidation of the elections held on 12 May last.

Article Credit: Shafaaq.com

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Some interesting headlines…

Sadr’s understanding with Allawi and Hakim waiting for Abadi

End of the meeting of the three presidencies and political leaders .. Jabbouri announced the details

BGG ~ So – let me get this straight… these guys have a meeting, set out a way to verify the results and move on, then someone who was in this meeting, doesn’t like the sound of things – and immediately (the next morning) tries to set fire to the ballot boxes (which would be used to further this effort).

Here’s my take – this is as close as Maliki will ever get to having his way again. Any one thing doesn’t go his way from here on in and he’s done for good.

Allawi .. Calls for the formation of a caretaker government and the re-election

BGG ~ Of course Allawi would say that – what does he have to lose? Did anyone notice he was the largest Sunni list with around 20 seats?? …out of 365 seats.

There are way more Sunnis than that in Iraq. Why is there such low representation? Pretty easy equation.

If I had to guess – there were a bunch of people in this meeting, Maliki included, who would like a different end result than they have right now. In fact, almost every

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Iraqi court orders arrest of ballot box storage site fire suspects

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – An Iraqi court has ordered the arrest of four people accused of setting fire to a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May parliamentary election, state television said on Monday.

Three of the suspects are policemen and one is an employee of the Independent High Elections Commission, state TV said. The storage site caught fire on Sunday.

Parliament had last week mandated a manual recount of the election after a number of political parties alleged fraud. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy in Cairo; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Article Credit: Reuters.com

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The Sadr Alliance vows to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul and sets a date for the prosecution and accountability of those involved

Baghdad today – Raed Fahmi, a leader of the alliance, “Saroon” backed by the leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, on Monday, open the file fall Mosul province, but the organization is calling, in 2014, while confirmed that the accountability of those responsible is inevitable.

Fahmi told Baghdad today that “what happened four years ago (the fall of Mosul) is a disaster in every sense of the word, and not only has it occupied the territories, but has caused great damage and loss to the lives and cities, which we continue to suffer from.”

He pointed out that “the current House of Representatives prepared an extensive report on the fall of Mosul, and we will open this file again and we will continue to hold accountable those involved in this disaster, which caused a major node in the history of contemporary Iraq in the next parliamentary session.”

He added that “it is not reasonable all this period, the file remains absent and without taking actual measures and reality in the light of the report prepared by the House of Representatives,” explaining that “missing the file of the fall of Mosul all these years, is not without political or other pressures.”

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Charles Bright)

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Iraq’s parliament speaker calls for election rerun, after fire hits ballot boxes warehouse

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said on Sunday that the burning of a storage site in Baghdad where ballot boxes were kept was part of a plot to harm Iraq’s democratic process, the first government indication the incident was deliberate.
“Burning election warehouses … is a plot to harm the nation and its democracy. We will take all necessary measures and strike with an iron fist all who undermine the security of the nation and its citizens,” Abadi said in a statement.

The storage site housing half of Baghdad’s ballot boxes from Iraq’s parliamentary election in May caught fire, just days after parliament demanded a nationwide recount of votes, drawing calls for the election to be re-run.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said later the fire was confined to one of four warehouses at the site. State television said the ballot boxes were being moved to another location under heavy security.

Authorities did not say whether they believed the fire was deliberately set, but its timing undermined the results of an election whose validity was already in doubt. Fewer than 45 percent of voters cast a ballot, a record low, and allegations of fraud began almost immediately after the vote.

Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, whose electoral alliance came third in the election, said on Tuesday that a government investigation had found serious violations and blamed Iraq’s independent elections commission for most of them.

Parliament mandated a full manual recount the next day. The Independent High Elections Commission had used electronic vote- counting devices to tally the results.

A recount could undermine nationalist cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States whose bloc won the largest number of seats in the election. One of Sadr’s top aides expressed concern that some parties were trying to sabotage the cleric’s victory.
Salim Al-Jabouri, the outgoing speaker of parliament, said the fire showed the election should be repeated.

“The crime of burning ballot-box storage warehouses in the Rusafa area is a deliberate act, a planned crime, aimed at hiding instances of fraud and manipulation of votes, lying to the Iraqi people and changing their will and choices,” he said in a statement.

Jabouri narrowly lost his seat in May and had been one of the strongest proponents of a recount before the fire. His call was seconded by Vice President Iyad Allawi, the leader of the electoral alliance Jabouri ran as part of.

Top Sadr aide Dhiaa Al-Asadi said the fire was a plot aimed at forcing a repeat of the election and hiding fraud.

“Whoever burned the election equipment and document storage site had two goals: either canceling the election or destroying the stuffed ballots counted among the results,” he tweeted.

JUDICIAL TAKEOVER

The fire took place at a Trade Ministry site in Baghdad where the election commission stored the ballot boxes from Al-Rusafa, the half of Baghdad on the eastern side of the Tigris river. Baghdad is Iraq’s most populous province, accounting for 71 seats out of the Iraqi parliament’s 329.

The site was divided into four warehouses, said Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Saad Maan. Only one — housing electronic equipment and documents — had burned down, he said.

Firefighters were trying to stop the fire from spreading to the remaining three warehouses, where the ballot boxes are stored, he said.

“It is possible there were also some ballot boxes in the warehouse that caught fire, but most of the important boxes are in the three warehouses, where the fire has been controlled,” he said in a video message from the site of the fire.

The law mandating a manual recount also mandated the board of the election commission be replaced by judges. Earlier on Sunday, the Supreme Judicial Council, Iraq’s highest judicial authority, named the judges who will take over replace the commissioners.

The council also named judges to replace the commission’s local chiefs in each of Iraq’s 18 provinces, another measure mandated by parliament.

The board of commissioners has said it would appeal against the law forcing the recount.

Article Credit: Arabnews.com

BGG ~  Why would this be Sadr?? He loves his position and has nothing to fear from a recount… especially if these accusations about the IHEC (or HEC – whatever they are calling it this week) are true and we get an unbiased panel of 9 judges instead.

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CDiller ~ Its what I’ve said all along. Trump has done what they thought could not happen. He took Obama’s secret cash from Iran. Now Iran’s only hope to continue their terror supporting agendas is in Iraq for the continuation of the money being funneled to Iran.

Sadr represents Trumps counter part in Iraq. The people have voted even through severe threats from Iran and from Maliki’s block. We are seeing the results and the death of Maliki and Iran’s hopes and dreams.

We are seeing them acting out of desparation… burning mentioned above. Next they will attack Sadr and Abadi in open war. They will lose. MALIKI will be tried and executed. Iran will be dealt with. The Dinar will rise. Watch and see.

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Iraq’s prime minister speaks of a conspiracy threatening the country

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said a fire at the ballot box store in Baghdad was part of a plot to undermine the country’s democratic process in the first government sign that the incident was deliberate.

“The burning of electoral stores represents a plan to strike the country and its democratic approach,” Abbadi said in a statement, adding that “we will take the necessary measures and strike with an iron fist against anyone who wishes to undermine the security of the country and its citizens.”

The Independent Electoral Commission for elections to re-counting and sorting manually in the whole of Iraq , and the abolition of the work of accelerating the electronic results.

The Iraqi parliamentary elections took place on 12 May last, the system of electronic voting, which was applied for the first time in the country, which caused great controversy and criticism after the announcement of the results.

Political blocs and figures questioned the results of the elections, prompting the parliament to set up a mini-fact-finding commission two weeks ago to consider allegations of violations that accompanied the electoral process, including members of the legal committees, immigration and parliamentary integrity.

And replaced the list of “Saron” sponsored by the Sadrist movement in the first place, followed by the list of the opening led by the leader of the popular crowd, Hadi Amiri second, while the coalition of victory led by Prime Minister Haider Abadi III.

Article Credit: arabic.sputniknews.com
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Chattels (Dinar Guru) –   Quote:  “Legal team replaces Iraq High Election Commission & supervises hand recount of votes from 12 May. This will take 3 weeks. (Authorities of current government end 30 June & if no new government formed, a temporary government with limited powers takes over)”  So, at this point there has been no ratification of the election results by the Iraqi Judiciary. The timeline for government formation has not begun until the act of ratification.  It appears that it may be after June 30 until the completion of the recount and the election results can be ratified. Iraq will have a caretaker government beginning about July 1st. It is unlikely that Iraq will have a new government until late August or early September, IMO.   …I have opined that the first quarter of 2019 seems like the earliest date for completion of monetary reform and the realization of any value for us.  Not a prediction, but nothing likely before then is my sense of it.

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Nujaifi: Parliament corrected the mistake of choosing thieves to run the Commission

The leader of the coalition of Iraqi decision, Athil Nujaifi, that the Electoral Commission for elections, led by a group of “thieves”, working for pay in some political blocs.

Al-Nujaifi explained in an exclusive interview (Baghdad today) that “the amendment of the law of the elections of the House of Representatives, is a reform of the error occurred in the parliament previously,” noting that “this error is chosen by the Commission led by a group of thieves.”

He added that “the people who managed the Commission, are working with pay to some political blocs,” pointing out that “the House of Representatives is now trying to correct what he did a big mistake, and we are supporters of amending the election law.”

Nujaifi called on political leaders to “raise the level of responsibility and start consultations to preserve the security of the Iraqi state,” saying: “We will go to the stage of constitutional vacuum, after the House of Representatives stopped the end of June.”

On June 5, 2018, the Council of Ministers approved the recommendations of the ministerial committee to investigate the violations that took place in the elections, which confirmed the occurrence of major violations and recommended several points, the most important of which are the cancellation of the results of the outside and the manual counting of part of the results, UNHCR officials to travel abroad until the completion of investigations and proved not to be involved in the manipulation of results or fraud.

On June 6, 2018, the House of Representatives voted on all the provisions of the Third Amendment to the Law on the Elections of the Council of Representatives, which included “the manual re-counting of the results of the elections” and “the suspension of the work of the Board of Commissioners and the directors of the provincial offices of the Commission and replacing them with nine judges “He said.

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news

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Urgent Election Commission reveals the date of counting and manual counting of the results

(Baghdad: al-Furat News) The Electoral Commission revealed on Sunday the date for the start of counting and sorting the results of the elections of the House of Representatives, which took place on 12 May last.

A member of the Board of Commissioners {Said Kakaai}, “The counting and counting of voters’ votes will begin on Wednesday or Thursday next, adding that the process will include all the provinces of Iraq, including the provinces of Kurdistan.”

He added that “the process of manual counting and counting of voters will be under the supervision of judges for each province,” pointing out that “9 districts have been assigned instead of the Commission to oversee the amendment of the election law, which was approved by the House of Representatives recently.”

“The Supreme Judicial Council will determine on Sunday, the place of counting and sorting by hand,” he said, adding that “10,000 employees will count and count more than 10 million votes in the 53 funds for the elections that took place on 12 May last, under the supervision of the United Nations.”

Article Credit: Alforatnews.com

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –  Some good news today if you call it that, it looks like the manual recount is only going to take about 10 days and not 3 months as originally predicted.  Personally I don’t know what the desire for manual recount is for. It’s not going to change the outcome of who becomes prime-minister because that is based on political blocks unifying to form an alliance.  At best, a political block may pick up a seat or two in parliament.  But all this nonsense has been initiated by al-Maliki and his block and Salim Jubouri the parliament speaker who both lost pretty handily in the elections.  What also appears to have happened is in the last day or so a large alliance has been formed consisting of a majority of parliamentary seats. This Alliance does not include al-Maliki or his state of law coalition.   [post 1 of 2….stay tuned]

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Three-way alliance emerging in Iraqi gov’t talks

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Three political blocs have made progress in forging an alliance as the next Iraqi government takes shape.

Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sayirun alliance, the National Hikma or Wisdom Movement led by Ammar al-Hakim, and the al-Wataniya list led by Ayad Allawi collectively secured 95 seats in the May 12 parliamentary election.

“There is a profound understanding with the Sayirun alliance and Wataniya list and we have reached some basic elements,” Abdullah Zaidi, a member of the Hikma Movement’s negotiating team, told Rudaw.

“The meetings are ongoing and we have not closed our door to other blocs including Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites,” he said.

He added they want the next Iraqi government take “a nationwide structure.”

The Sayirun alliance is a unique meeting of Shiite cleric Sadr, the Communist Party, and secularists. The Hikma group is Shiite and Wataniya is Sunni.

Leaders of the three parties have signed an agreement.

Though there was a flurry of meetings between winners and losers in the days after the vote, this appears to be the first concrete step taken towards forming a sizeable bloc.

The three parties are developing ties as the election results are in doubt. The parliament has ordered a manual recount of votes.

Some parties, including the PUK, have already warned of growing tensions in Iraq after the parliament also decided to cancel the votes of the diaspora, IDPs, and the Peshmerga.

Article Credit: Rudaw.net

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –   So if we’re waiting for the formation of the government to occur before any kind of monetary reform can go forward, it looks like we might be waiting an extra month or so.  I think we were all hoping for the formation of the government to occur by the end of June and to coincide with the cbi’s three-month IMF requirement (June 15 or so) compliance but that looks like it might be pushed back until the end of July or August.  If so we have to hope that the CBI can continue to maintain spread within 2% or less for that duration.   In the meantime I am looking for some news that would indicate that the IMF has scheduled their Article IV Consultation with Iraq. I believe this will occur at the same or about the same time as the CBI’s begins monetary reform.  [post 2 of 2]

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –   The current rate of the Iraqi dinar 1190 is real and accurate and a result of monetary policy accomplished over several years when Shabibi was in charge it’s not artificial or program rate.  The recent change in the exchange rate in year 2015 to 1186 now reflecting 1190 is real and a result of discussions between the IMF and the CBI to monitor the conditions in Iraq and the subsequent reforms.  As I said before numerous times if and when the CBI accepts IMF Article VIII they will have to get off the peg and move to some type of float allowing the dinar to gradually rise based on investment and capital influx. This is no overnight event.

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Abadi faces key decision to align with Iraq liberators

Leading Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s announcement of a coalition has left remaining parties with the choice of closing ranks which could reinstate Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for another term.

The Fatah (Conquest) alliance, led by secretary general of Badr Organization Hadi al-Ameri, Abadi’s Nasr (Victory) coalition and Vice President Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law Coalition) are now best placed to form a coalition.

The blocs finished second, third and fourth in the May 12 elections by securing 47 and 42 and 26 parliamentary seats, respectively.

If the three groups form an alliance, they would take 115 seats, enough to form a government.

Ameri’s Badr Organization is a coalition of volunteer forces, most prominently Hashd al-Sha’abi, which ousted Takfiri terrorists from Iraq and returned security to the country.

Sadr forms alliance with two other parties

Sadr, whose list won the largest number of seats in the elections, has formed an alliance with two other blocs in an attempt to have a majority at the parliament.

A coalition agreement was reached on Friday between Sadr’s Sairoon (Marching Towards Reform) bloc, which won 54 seats in the Iraqi parliament, as well as Vice President Ayad Allawi’s Sunni-majority al-Wataniya (National) alliance and Shia cleric Ammar al-Hakim’s Hikma (Wisdom) alliance.

The parties of Allawi and Hakim finished sixth and seventh in the elections with 21 and 19 parliamentary seats, respectively.

In a statement, the newly-formed tripartite coalition expressed resolve to preserve Iraq’s national unity, implement economic reforms, encourage private sector activity and promote investment.

The coalition also underlined the need for avoiding the “politicization of the government, administrative and military sectors,” calling for an independent judiciary, “balanced” foreign relations and the swift repatriation of the displaced.

The alliance gives Sadr around 100 seats, but the number is not enough to generate a majority in the 329-member parliament.

The development came amid mounting allegations of fraud surrounding last month’s elections, which led the Iraqi parliament to vote for a manual recount, cancel expatriates’ votes and sack the electoral commission.

Iraqi lawmaker Kazem al-Shammari told the UK-based Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that serious talks were underway with other parliamentary blocs to join the tripartite coalition.

“We believe that agreements with these blocs could help create the biggest bloc that would form the next government while the remaining alliances would become the opposition,” he said.

Sadr urges disarmament of all groups

Separately on Friday, Sadr called on all armed groups to lay down arms and declared that Baghdad’s Sadr City district would be a weapons-free area later this month.

“Everyone must obey the orders and not stand in the way of this initiative. Everyone should hand over their weapons without any discussion because the blood of Iraqis is more valuable to us than anything else,” he told his supporters in a statement.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry also released a statement thanking Sadr for his disarmament initiative.

Article Credit: Presstv.com

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Some interesting headlines…

Sadr’s understanding with Allawi and Hakim waiting for Abadi

End of the meeting of the three presidencies and political leaders .. Jabbouri announced the details

BGG ~ So – let me get this straight… these guys have a meeting, set out a way to verify the results and move on, then someone who was in this meeting, doesn’t like the sound of things – and immediately (the next morning) tries to set fire to the ballot boxes (which would be used to further this effort).

Here’s my take – this is as close as Maliki will ever get to having his way again. Any one thing doesn’t go his way from here on in and he’s done for good.

Allawi .. Calls for the formation of a caretaker government and the re-election

BGG ~ Of course Allawi would say that – what does he have to lose? Did anyone notice he was the largest Sunni list with around 20 seats?? …out of 365 seats.

There are way more Sunnis than that in Iraq. Why is there such low representation? Pretty easy equation.

If I had to guess – there were a bunch of people in this meeting, Maliki included, who would like a different end result than they have right now. In fact, almost every

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PUK central council member nominates himself for Iraqi presidency

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) central council member has nominated himself for the position of Iraqi presidency, which has been held by a PUK member in every parliament since 2005.

“I have nominated myself for the position of the Iraqi presidency within the PUK. If PUK is given the post, then I will have the chance because I have all the requirements of presidency,” Mohammed Sabir, a member of PUK’s central council, told Rudaw.

The central council has sent a letter to the deputy secretary general and the executive board of the PUK’s politburo, which, according to him, has expressed its support for him.

“If, following discussions, the position is given to the PUK then the final word rests with PUK’s leadership. I find myself worthy of the position,” Sabir added.

Sabir was born in 1947. He joined the PUK in 1976. He has a PhD in nuclear physics. His wife is the daughter of Ibrahim Ahmed, a founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and father-in-law of PUK founder Jalal Talabani. His brother is an MP in the Kurdistan parliament.

The Iraqi presidency, a largely ceremonial role, has been held by a member of the PUK for three consecutive parliaments. It was held twice by Jalal Talabani and once by PUK co-founder Fuad Masum.

Talks over the composition of the next Iraq government are still underway. Naming the new president, prime minister, speaker, and council of ministers could take many weeks, as the government has ordered a full manual recount of votes following allegations of fraud.

Article Credit: Rudaw.net
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Sadr: Partnership with Maliki Not an Option for Me

ERBIL – Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, head of Sa’eroun Alliance which has won the recent parliamentary election said that he would not be part of a future government influenced by Iran, said a report on Wednesday.

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed cited a source close to Sadr, saying that the Iraqi leader “is not ready to partner with Nouri al-Maliki, head of the State of Law which has currently taken the third place”.

He has said that “being an opposition group is far better than partnering with Maliki”, reiterating he won’t be in a cabinet which is not an Iraqi one.

According to the source, there is a primary agreement among Sa’eroun Alliance, Haider al-Abadi’s Victory Alliance, Ayad Alawi’s National Coalition, and part of the Sunnis on the formation of the next government, but they still can’t make a majority to do so without the Kurdish factions which have obtained a total of 58 seats of the parliament.

Article Credit: Basnews.com
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– Don’t run out & buy new “stuff”. People notice.

– Get an unpublished number and give it out very sparingly.

– Get a tax accountant you can trust to make sure the IRS is satisfied (Certified Opinion is something to look into) and pursue asset protection…

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Iraq’s parliament speaker calls for election rerun, after fire hits ballot boxes warehouse

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said on Sunday that the burning of a storage site in Baghdad where ballot boxes were kept was part of a plot to harm Iraq’s democratic process, the first government indication the incident was deliberate.
“Burning election warehouses … is a plot to harm the nation and its democracy. We will take all necessary measures and strike with an iron fist all who undermine the security of the nation and its citizens,” Abadi said in a statement.

The storage site housing half of Baghdad’s ballot boxes from Iraq’s parliamentary election in May caught fire, just days after parliament demanded a nationwide recount of votes, drawing calls for the election to be re-run.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said later the fire was confined to one of four warehouses at the site. State television said the ballot boxes were being moved to another location under heavy security.

Authorities did not say whether they believed the fire was deliberately set, but its timing undermined the results of an election whose validity was already in doubt. Fewer than 45 percent of voters cast a ballot, a record low, and allegations of fraud began almost immediately after the vote.

Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, whose electoral alliance came third in the election, said on Tuesday that a government investigation had found serious violations and blamed Iraq’s independent elections commission for most of them.

Parliament mandated a full manual recount the next day. The Independent High Elections Commission had used electronic vote- counting devices to tally the results.

A recount could undermine nationalist cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States whose bloc won the largest number of seats in the election. One of Sadr’s top aides expressed concern that some parties were trying to sabotage the cleric’s victory.
Salim Al-Jabouri, the outgoing speaker of parliament, said the fire showed the election should be repeated.

“The crime of burning ballot-box storage warehouses in the Rusafa area is a deliberate act, a planned crime, aimed at hiding instances of fraud and manipulation of votes, lying to the Iraqi people and changing their will and choices,” he said in a statement.

Jabouri narrowly lost his seat in May and had been one of the strongest proponents of a recount before the fire. His call was seconded by Vice President Iyad Allawi, the leader of the electoral alliance Jabouri ran as part of.

Top Sadr aide Dhiaa Al-Asadi said the fire was a plot aimed at forcing a repeat of the election and hiding fraud.

“Whoever burned the election equipment and document storage site had two goals: either canceling the election or destroying the stuffed ballots counted among the results,” he tweeted.

JUDICIAL TAKEOVER

The fire took place at a Trade Ministry site in Baghdad where the election commission stored the ballot boxes from Al-Rusafa, the half of Baghdad on the eastern side of the Tigris river. Baghdad is Iraq’s most populous province, accounting for 71 seats out of the Iraqi parliament’s 329.

The site was divided into four warehouses, said Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Saad Maan. Only one — housing electronic equipment and documents — had burned down, he said.

Firefighters were trying to stop the fire from spreading to the remaining three warehouses, where the ballot boxes are stored, he said.

“It is possible there were also some ballot boxes in the warehouse that caught fire, but most of the important boxes are in the three warehouses, where the fire has been controlled,” he said in a video message from the site of the fire.

The law mandating a manual recount also mandated the board of the election commission be replaced by judges. Earlier on Sunday, the Supreme Judicial Council, Iraq’s highest judicial authority, named the judges who will take over replace the commissioners.

The council also named judges to replace the commission’s local chiefs in each of Iraq’s 18 provinces, another measure mandated by parliament.

The board of commissioners has said it would appeal against the law forcing the recount.

Article Credit: Arabnews.com

BGG ~  Why would this be Sadr?? He loves his position and has nothing to fear from a recount… especially if these accusations about the IHEC (or HEC – whatever they are calling it this week) are true and we get an unbiased panel of 9 judges instead.

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CDiller ~ Its what I’ve said all along. Trump has done what they thought could not happen. He took Obama’s secret cash from Iran. Now Iran’s only hope to continue their terror supporting agendas is in Iraq for the continuation of the money being funneled to Iran.

Sadr represents Trumps counter part in Iraq. The people have voted even through severe threats from Iran and from Maliki’s block. We are seeing the results and the death of Maliki and Iran’s hopes and dreams.

We are seeing them acting out of desparation… burning mentioned above. Next they will attack Sadr and Abadi in open war. They will lose. MALIKI will be tried and executed. Iran will be dealt with. The Dinar will rise. Watch and see.

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Iraq’s prime minister speaks of a conspiracy threatening the country

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said a fire at the ballot box store in Baghdad was part of a plot to undermine the country’s democratic process in the first government sign that the incident was deliberate.

“The burning of electoral stores represents a plan to strike the country and its democratic approach,” Abbadi said in a statement, adding that “we will take the necessary measures and strike with an iron fist against anyone who wishes to undermine the security of the country and its citizens.”

The Independent Electoral Commission for elections to re-counting and sorting manually in the whole of Iraq , and the abolition of the work of accelerating the electronic results.

The Iraqi parliamentary elections took place on 12 May last, the system of electronic voting, which was applied for the first time in the country, which caused great controversy and criticism after the announcement of the results.

Political blocs and figures questioned the results of the elections, prompting the parliament to set up a mini-fact-finding commission two weeks ago to consider allegations of violations that accompanied the electoral process, including members of the legal committees, immigration and parliamentary integrity.

And replaced the list of “Saron” sponsored by the Sadrist movement in the first place, followed by the list of the opening led by the leader of the popular crowd, Hadi Amiri second, while the coalition of victory led by Prime Minister Haider Abadi III.

Article Credit: arabic.sputniknews.com
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Chattels (Dinar Guru) –   Quote:  “Legal team replaces Iraq High Election Commission & supervises hand recount of votes from 12 May. This will take 3 weeks. (Authorities of current government end 30 June & if no new government formed, a temporary government with limited powers takes over)”  So, at this point there has been no ratification of the election results by the Iraqi Judiciary. The timeline for government formation has not begun until the act of ratification.  It appears that it may be after June 30 until the completion of the recount and the election results can be ratified. Iraq will have a caretaker government beginning about July 1st. It is unlikely that Iraq will have a new government until late August or early September, IMO.   …I have opined that the first quarter of 2019 seems like the earliest date for completion of monetary reform and the realization of any value for us.  Not a prediction, but nothing likely before then is my sense of it.

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Nujaifi: Parliament corrected the mistake of choosing thieves to run the Commission

The leader of the coalition of Iraqi decision, Athil Nujaifi, that the Electoral Commission for elections, led by a group of “thieves”, working for pay in some political blocs.

Al-Nujaifi explained in an exclusive interview (Baghdad today) that “the amendment of the law of the elections of the House of Representatives, is a reform of the error occurred in the parliament previously,” noting that “this error is chosen by the Commission led by a group of thieves.”

He added that “the people who managed the Commission, are working with pay to some political blocs,” pointing out that “the House of Representatives is now trying to correct what he did a big mistake, and we are supporters of amending the election law.”

Nujaifi called on political leaders to “raise the level of responsibility and start consultations to preserve the security of the Iraqi state,” saying: “We will go to the stage of constitutional vacuum, after the House of Representatives stopped the end of June.”

On June 5, 2018, the Council of Ministers approved the recommendations of the ministerial committee to investigate the violations that took place in the elections, which confirmed the occurrence of major violations and recommended several points, the most important of which are the cancellation of the results of the outside and the manual counting of part of the results, UNHCR officials to travel abroad until the completion of investigations and proved not to be involved in the manipulation of results or fraud.

On June 6, 2018, the House of Representatives voted on all the provisions of the Third Amendment to the Law on the Elections of the Council of Representatives, which included “the manual re-counting of the results of the elections” and “the suspension of the work of the Board of Commissioners and the directors of the provincial offices of the Commission and replacing them with nine judges “He said.

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news

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Urgent Election Commission reveals the date of counting and manual counting of the results

(Baghdad: al-Furat News) The Electoral Commission revealed on Sunday the date for the start of counting and sorting the results of the elections of the House of Representatives, which took place on 12 May last.

A member of the Board of Commissioners {Said Kakaai}, “The counting and counting of voters’ votes will begin on Wednesday or Thursday next, adding that the process will include all the provinces of Iraq, including the provinces of Kurdistan.”

He added that “the process of manual counting and counting of voters will be under the supervision of judges for each province,” pointing out that “9 districts have been assigned instead of the Commission to oversee the amendment of the election law, which was approved by the House of Representatives recently.”

“The Supreme Judicial Council will determine on Sunday, the place of counting and sorting by hand,” he said, adding that “10,000 employees will count and count more than 10 million votes in the 53 funds for the elections that took place on 12 May last, under the supervision of the United Nations.”

Article Credit: Alforatnews.com

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –  Some good news today if you call it that, it looks like the manual recount is only going to take about 10 days and not 3 months as originally predicted.  Personally I don’t know what the desire for manual recount is for. It’s not going to change the outcome of who becomes prime-minister because that is based on political blocks unifying to form an alliance.  At best, a political block may pick up a seat or two in parliament.  But all this nonsense has been initiated by al-Maliki and his block and Salim Jubouri the parliament speaker who both lost pretty handily in the elections.  What also appears to have happened is in the last day or so a large alliance has been formed consisting of a majority of parliamentary seats. This Alliance does not include al-Maliki or his state of law coalition.   [post 1 of 2….stay tuned]

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Three-way alliance emerging in Iraqi gov’t talks

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Three political blocs have made progress in forging an alliance as the next Iraqi government takes shape.

Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sayirun alliance, the National Hikma or Wisdom Movement led by Ammar al-Hakim, and the al-Wataniya list led by Ayad Allawi collectively secured 95 seats in the May 12 parliamentary election.

“There is a profound understanding with the Sayirun alliance and Wataniya list and we have reached some basic elements,” Abdullah Zaidi, a member of the Hikma Movement’s negotiating team, told Rudaw.

“The meetings are ongoing and we have not closed our door to other blocs including Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites,” he said.

He added they want the next Iraqi government take “a nationwide structure.”

The Sayirun alliance is a unique meeting of Shiite cleric Sadr, the Communist Party, and secularists. The Hikma group is Shiite and Wataniya is Sunni.

Leaders of the three parties have signed an agreement.

Though there was a flurry of meetings between winners and losers in the days after the vote, this appears to be the first concrete step taken towards forming a sizeable bloc.

The three parties are developing ties as the election results are in doubt. The parliament has ordered a manual recount of votes.

Some parties, including the PUK, have already warned of growing tensions in Iraq after the parliament also decided to cancel the votes of the diaspora, IDPs, and the Peshmerga.

Article Credit: Rudaw.net

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –   So if we’re waiting for the formation of the government to occur before any kind of monetary reform can go forward, it looks like we might be waiting an extra month or so.  I think we were all hoping for the formation of the government to occur by the end of June and to coincide with the cbi’s three-month IMF requirement (June 15 or so) compliance but that looks like it might be pushed back until the end of July or August.  If so we have to hope that the CBI can continue to maintain spread within 2% or less for that duration.   In the meantime I am looking for some news that would indicate that the IMF has scheduled their Article IV Consultation with Iraq. I believe this will occur at the same or about the same time as the CBI’s begins monetary reform.  [post 2 of 2]

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –   The current rate of the Iraqi dinar 1190 is real and accurate and a result of monetary policy accomplished over several years when Shabibi was in charge it’s not artificial or program rate.  The recent change in the exchange rate in year 2015 to 1186 now reflecting 1190 is real and a result of discussions between the IMF and the CBI to monitor the conditions in Iraq and the subsequent reforms.  As I said before numerous times if and when the CBI accepts IMF Article VIII they will have to get off the peg and move to some type of float allowing the dinar to gradually rise based on investment and capital influx. This is no overnight event.

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Abadi faces key decision to align with Iraq liberators

Leading Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s announcement of a coalition has left remaining parties with the choice of closing ranks which could reinstate Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for another term.

The Fatah (Conquest) alliance, led by secretary general of Badr Organization Hadi al-Ameri, Abadi’s Nasr (Victory) coalition and Vice President Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law Coalition) are now best placed to form a coalition.

The blocs finished second, third and fourth in the May 12 elections by securing 47 and 42 and 26 parliamentary seats, respectively.

If the three groups form an alliance, they would take 115 seats, enough to form a government.

Ameri’s Badr Organization is a coalition of volunteer forces, most prominently Hashd al-Sha’abi, which ousted Takfiri terrorists from Iraq and returned security to the country.

Sadr forms alliance with two other parties

Sadr, whose list won the largest number of seats in the elections, has formed an alliance with two other blocs in an attempt to have a majority at the parliament.

A coalition agreement was reached on Friday between Sadr’s Sairoon (Marching Towards Reform) bloc, which won 54 seats in the Iraqi parliament, as well as Vice President Ayad Allawi’s Sunni-majority al-Wataniya (National) alliance and Shia cleric Ammar al-Hakim’s Hikma (Wisdom) alliance.

The parties of Allawi and Hakim finished sixth and seventh in the elections with 21 and 19 parliamentary seats, respectively.

In a statement, the newly-formed tripartite coalition expressed resolve to preserve Iraq’s national unity, implement economic reforms, encourage private sector activity and promote investment.

The coalition also underlined the need for avoiding the “politicization of the government, administrative and military sectors,” calling for an independent judiciary, “balanced” foreign relations and the swift repatriation of the displaced.

The alliance gives Sadr around 100 seats, but the number is not enough to generate a majority in the 329-member parliament.

The development came amid mounting allegations of fraud surrounding last month’s elections, which led the Iraqi parliament to vote for a manual recount, cancel expatriates’ votes and sack the electoral commission.

Iraqi lawmaker Kazem al-Shammari told the UK-based Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that serious talks were underway with other parliamentary blocs to join the tripartite coalition.

“We believe that agreements with these blocs could help create the biggest bloc that would form the next government while the remaining alliances would become the opposition,” he said.

Sadr urges disarmament of all groups

Separately on Friday, Sadr called on all armed groups to lay down arms and declared that Baghdad’s Sadr City district would be a weapons-free area later this month.

“Everyone must obey the orders and not stand in the way of this initiative. Everyone should hand over their weapons without any discussion because the blood of Iraqis is more valuable to us than anything else,” he told his supporters in a statement.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry also released a statement thanking Sadr for his disarmament initiative.

Article Credit: Presstv.com

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Some interesting headlines…

Sadr’s understanding with Allawi and Hakim waiting for Abadi

End of the meeting of the three presidencies and political leaders .. Jabbouri announced the details

BGG ~ So – let me get this straight… these guys have a meeting, set out a way to verify the results and move on, then someone who was in this meeting, doesn’t like the sound of things – and immediately (the next morning) tries to set fire to the ballot boxes (which would be used to further this effort).

Here’s my take – this is as close as Maliki will ever get to having his way again. Any one thing doesn’t go his way from here on in and he’s done for good.

Allawi .. Calls for the formation of a caretaker government and the re-election

BGG ~ Of course Allawi would say that – what does he have to lose? Did anyone notice he was the largest Sunni list with around 20 seats?? …out of 365 seats.

There are way more Sunnis than that in Iraq. Why is there such low representation? Pretty easy equation.

If I had to guess – there were a bunch of people in this meeting, Maliki included, who would like a different end result than they have right now. In fact, almost every

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PUK central council member nominates himself for Iraqi presidency

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) central council member has nominated himself for the position of Iraqi presidency, which has been held by a PUK member in every parliament since 2005.

“I have nominated myself for the position of the Iraqi presidency within the PUK. If PUK is given the post, then I will have the chance because I have all the requirements of presidency,” Mohammed Sabir, a member of PUK’s central council, told Rudaw.

The central council has sent a letter to the deputy secretary general and the executive board of the PUK’s politburo, which, according to him, has expressed its support for him.

“If, following discussions, the position is given to the PUK then the final word rests with PUK’s leadership. I find myself worthy of the position,” Sabir added.

Sabir was born in 1947. He joined the PUK in 1976. He has a PhD in nuclear physics. His wife is the daughter of Ibrahim Ahmed, a founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and father-in-law of PUK founder Jalal Talabani. His brother is an MP in the Kurdistan parliament.

The Iraqi presidency, a largely ceremonial role, has been held by a member of the PUK for three consecutive parliaments. It was held twice by Jalal Talabani and once by PUK co-founder Fuad Masum.

Talks over the composition of the next Iraq government are still underway. Naming the new president, prime minister, speaker, and council of ministers could take many weeks, as the government has ordered a full manual recount of votes following allegations of fraud.

Article Credit: Rudaw.net
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Sadr: Partnership with Maliki Not an Option for Me

ERBIL – Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, head of Sa’eroun Alliance which has won the recent parliamentary election said that he would not be part of a future government influenced by Iran, said a report on Wednesday.

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed cited a source close to Sadr, saying that the Iraqi leader “is not ready to partner with Nouri al-Maliki, head of the State of Law which has currently taken the third place”.

He has said that “being an opposition group is far better than partnering with Maliki”, reiterating he won’t be in a cabinet which is not an Iraqi one.

According to the source, there is a primary agreement among Sa’eroun Alliance, Haider al-Abadi’s Victory Alliance, Ayad Alawi’s National Coalition, and part of the Sunnis on the formation of the next government, but they still can’t make a majority to do so without the Kurdish factions which have obtained a total of 58 seats of the parliament.

Article Credit: Basnews.com
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Abadi’s list hints at the opposition

BasNews – A member of the coalition «victory» led by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi, the coalition’s readiness to work in the opposition in the House of Representatives.

“We welcome everyone, but the declaration of alliances is premature before the Federal Supreme Court approves the election results as well as the charged atmosphere and cast doubt on the results,” Yusuf al-Kalabi said in a press statement.

“We are close to everyone, except those whose hands have been stained with the blood of the Iraqis, stealing the people’s money and penetrating corruption.”

Al-Kalabi announced that they are in the coalition of “victory” ready to go to the opposition without hesitation if we do not find this atmosphere.

Abizaid, saying: «we find the alliance of Souron, is closest to us and other parties, but we emphasize that the political meetings do not exceed the exchange of visits».

And the decision of the Council of Representatives on the elections, that “the election law painted a way to challenge the results and there are those who did not accept, and there are a lot of observations on the Electoral Commission,” as he put it.

He said that “the elections can not be re-elected, because exceeding the constitutional time after the end of the current parliament, which ends on July 1, 2018 will put us in crisis.”

“The current parliament has not succeeded in the basic task of legislating the important and required laws. Iraq is walking in an executive and realistic direction, and the laws are socialist and old, so the next parliament has a great responsibility to make a real revolution in the legislation of laws.”

The coalition of “victory”, led by Abadi, was replaced by a third with 42 seats, according to the final results of legislative elections announced by the Electoral Commission for elections in Iraq, dawn Saturday 19 May.

While Al-Fateh won 48 seats, while the State of Law coalition won 26 seats, the Kurdistan Democratic Party won 25 seats, the National Coalition won 21 seats, (Wisdom) 20 seats, while the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan won 18 seats.

Article Credit: Basnews.com (Special Thanks to Paul Moseley)

BGG ~ I think it early to worry or be concerned about who will lead Iraq. This is more of a threat than a reality. I think there is little chance Abadi’s list winds up as the opposition in Parliament, rather – this is a statement confirming his loyalties to the cause of the people and a warning to some of the “swing votes” who might still be jockeying with the dream there is a return to some former place in which Maliki returns Iraq to rampant corruption where he gets to do as he pleases and they get paid huge fortunes.

Abadi still has the clearest path to being the next PM.

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Simple answer: I’m not – I’m buying. I only sell so that we can increase holdings. We keep everything we can afford to. That’s the general concept anyway.

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We helped. When their advertised buy-back was $500-600 (depending on condition) we were able to get one man $850 x 60 million and helped save his farm. We didn’t make much – but we helped. It was then I realized, if we were gonna’ keep this up, we ought to get registered as a dealer.

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Chattels (Dinar Guru) –   165 seats are necessary. Sadr’s Sairoon (54 seats), PM Abadi’s Nasr (42 seats), Hakim’s Hikma (19 seats), VP Allawi’s Wataniya (21 seats) and the KDP (25 seats) and Qarar (13 seats) makes a total of 173 if my math is correct. Can I get a “Bingo!“?  With the Kurds as part of the government we have the best chance to avoid quotas and establish an efficient majority government for legislation without consensus, IMO.  Godspeed the completion of the Iraqi Banking Sector Reform Project!

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Source: the convergence of these lists to form the largest bloc .. Amiri and Maliki outside the coalition!!

Baghdad today – A parliamentary source familiar with, on Wednesday, a “kind of convergence” between the blocks supporting the Prime Minister Haider Abadi and the block Sason and the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the National Alliance led by Iyad Allawi to form the largest parliamentary bloc.

The agency “Sputnik” Russian, the source, who was not named, saying, “The deliberations and consultations are taking place between the Iraqi parliamentary blocs that have the largest percentages in the recent elections to reach the majority necessary to form the next government.”

The source added that “the blocks that have occurred among them a kind of convergence are supporters of the current Prime Minister Haider Abadi and the block going, plus the Kurdistan Democratic Party and perhaps the mass of Iyad Allawi may join them the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,” asserting that “these can form the largest bloc Which can name the prime minister and form the next government. ”

He pointed out that “any of the blocs that have the largest percentages of seats can not individually form a government that needs more than 160 seats, and here the largest bloc are the Sadrist bloc, which did not reach 60 seats,” ruling out “Sadr’s alliance with the Maliki group or group Hadi al-Amiri. ”

He pointed out that “the group Abadi is the closest to the block going because it acquires 47 seats and thus the total seats of the two blocs more than 100 seats,” noting that “they need 60 others, and may come from the Kurdish blocs and Allawi bloc.”

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Tim Tarkington)

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Sadr announces completion of final touches of government

Alsumaria News / Baghdad – The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr announced on Wednesday the completion of the final touches of the government, indicating that it is a genuine Iraqi government and opposition to constructive political and peaceful peace.

“Today, I have completed the picture and I have completed the final touches after you have completed the advice and satisfied you with the government,” Sadr said in a tweet followed by Alsumaria News. “It is a Sunni, Shiite, Arab, Kurdish, nationalist and non-sectarian government. Political peace “.

“We will brief them on the details of the many meetings so that they can have good sayings, and then we will wait for the honest and patriotic blocs that are precious to form a strong patriarchal government that will give the people their rights,” he said.

The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr met with a number of officials in the Iraqi government and heads of blocs and coalitions, including Prime Minister Haider Abadi, and discussed with them the formation of the next government and its program.

Article Credit: Alsumaria.tv
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sandyf (Dinar Guru) –   It is a fact that Iraq has for years discussed the project to delete the 3 zeros.  It is a fact that ten years ago that Iraq considered the “Turkey model” for their redenomination.  It is a fact that in April 2012 the Iraqi cabinet postponed the redenomination indefinitely. It is a fact that in 2009 an investigative report was published into redenominations.  It is a fact that the 2009 report concluded that a major contributor to a “successful” redenomination was low inflation.  It is a fact that a redenomination introduces a new national currency and that the previous national currency co-exists in-country for a period of time. It would become an ISO historical currency.  It is a fact that ISO historical currencies are not recognised internationally…

BGG ~ There are some claims here that I simply don’t agree with… the actual text of the noted articles show differently.

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Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader and head of Hikma party Ammar al-Hakim (L) and Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr meet in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on May 17, 2018. Photo: Haidar Hamdani / AFP

Sadr meets Hakim to discuss possible governing alliance

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the winning election alliance Sayirun, has met with the prominent Shia leader Ammar al-Hakim, head of the National Hikma (Wisdom) Movement, in Najaf to discuss forming a government.

Both sides say they agree on the need to form a representative government.

“I am thankful to the Iraqi people who voted in the current elections, those who helped reform triumph. [For] even those who abstained from voting, thank you, as they didn’t give their votes to the corrupt,” Sadr told journalists following the meeting.

“God willing, we are looking at a new stage for building in Iraq a democratic, paternal and technocratic government,” Sadr added.

The two leaders have not always been on good terms, according to many sources, with Sadr once saying he would not engage with Hakim politically or share a platform with him prior to the election.

Hakim’s alliance came out as the sixth largest party in the election, even trailing behind the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), with a preliminary result of 22 seats.

Hakim termed the meeting a “valuable opportunity,” where they discussed the election and its results and potential party combinations in government.

“We examined the necessity of forming a government that is national, strong, independent in its political decisions, dependent on the will of the free Iraqi nation, and with a national orientation that transcends components and represents all the sons of the people of Iraq,” Hakim told journalists.

Talk of a possible Sayirun-Hikma alliance marks a good start, Hakim said. Both leaders are open to further talks with any party standing on an anti-corruption, cross-sectarian and cross-ethnic, and pro-reform platform, he added.

He also called on the election commission to seriously examine complaints and allegations of fraud.

“It is clear that the decrease in turnout in elections is a message from the people of Iraq that they want new faces, serious programs and steps to provide the necessary and proper services to the sons of our people,” Hakim added.

Sadr has said he could support incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for a second term, owing to similarities in their election pitch.

In a recent pun-heavy tweet, Sadr hinted at potential alliances he wishes to see in an upcoming government.

The KDP, Abadi’s Nasr (Victory) Alliance, Hakim’s Hikma, and some other parties were included in the tweet. It is not clear whether Sadr deliberately omitted Hashd al-Shaabi’s Fatih and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) among others.

Brett McGurk, the US special presidential envoy, met with former Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani and PM Nechirvan Barzani in a bid to influence the shape of the next government.

Meanwhile, Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s (IRGC) extraterritorial Quds Force, is in southern Iraq seeking to assemble a pro-Iran Shia majority government among the divided Shia blocs.

Article Credit: Rudaw.net 
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Mnt Goat (Dinar Guru) –   Article:  “MOQTADA AL-SADR, AGREED TO GIVE PRIME MINISTER HAIDER ABADI A SECOND TERM, DURING THE MEETING THEY HAD JUST GATHERED IN BAGHDAD”  Okay so now we know Al-Abadi is going to be the next prime minister. We also gain some more insight at to the two conditions that al-Sadr is requiring of him. 1) fight corruption all the way to the top levels of govt 2) publish the list of names of those corrupt political officials.You can bet that on his mind is going after this Nori al-Maliki.

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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –   I stated last week that current PM al-Abadi does not want to be PM again.  Today, some news surfaced that seems to support that.  There may very well be a new PM chosen.

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Iraqi parliament decides to hold an extraordinary session on Thursday

Khandan – Is scheduled to hold the Iraqi Council of Representatives on Thursday, an extraordinary session to discuss the parliamentary elections that took place on May 12.

The Information Service of the House of Representatives in a statement reported by local media, the Presidency of the House of Representatives decided to hold a special session at the fourth hour of the afternoon on Thursday, May 24.

She pointed out that the convening of the meeting was based on the request made by a number of deputies who throw the focus on the transparency and integrity of the electoral process.

The House of Representatives held a deliberative session last Saturday in the presence of 105 deputies to discuss the elections. The President of the Council, Salim al-Jubouri, announced that the Presidency will direct a book containing the demand for the Electoral Commission to take all means to ensure confidence in the electoral process, including random counting and referral Criminal cases to the competent authorities in cases where mismanagement of the integrity of the electoral process and providing the political entities with an electronic copy a photocopy of the results sent via satellite and verify the process of matching data sent electronically with B The funds are counted through the counting of funds, as well as the request of the electoral judiciary to deal with appeals in a very thorough and impartial manner.

Article Credit: Xendan.org

BGG ~ Can’t you just hear that SUCKING SOUND?? It’s the SWEET SOUND of the Iraqi S-W-A-M-P going down the drain!!

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Some interesting headlines…

Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s bloc wins Iraq election

Why Iraq’s election is a remarkable victory for democracy

Leaders of the Dawa Party are seeking to revive a previous agreement between Abadi and Maliki

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Iraq’s Maliki to engage in more negotiations with Kurds on next govt

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki’s coalition intends to continue recent talks with kurdish political representatives regarding the formation of the next Iraqi government, his office said.

Hisham al-Rikabi, director of Maliki’s office, said in statements on Wednesday that the State of the Law coalition will launch a new phase of talks within the next couple of days with Kurdish political forces after a meeting between Maliki and a former Kurdish president, Masud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in Baghdad yesterday.

According to Rikabi, “the meeting between the head of the State of the Law Coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, and the KDP delegation in Baghdad has resulted into resolving lots of past issues between both sides, as well as reaching understandings in relation to the formation of the largest parliamentary bloc”.

Iraqi parliament elections, the first after victory over Islamic State militants, were held on 12th of this month, with results, announced on 19th. Maliki’s list came forth according to the final outcome.

No list has ensured an outright majority, and according to the constitution, the new government should be announced before 90 days after the announcement of results.

Kurds, whose relations with the central government in Baghdad deteriorated since they voted for independence in September, are anxious to secure a place in the next government. Kurdish representatives have met with various political groups, including Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose list came first in the polls.

Kurds have been at loggerheads with Maliki, a former prime minister who is widely blamed for stoking sectarianism and for Islamic State’s takeover of Iraqi territories by the end of his term in 2014.

Article Credit: Iraqinews.com

BGG ~ I really, really, really hope these two jackwaggons go ahead and do a FRUITLESS, IGNORANT, self-serving deal in public and GET RAM-JACKED for it.

ABOUT TIME!!

For our newcomers – these two guys are responsible for all kinds of hideous outcomes for much of the Middle East and likely why we should have seen value change in the Dinar as far back as 2012 but still haven’t.

The reason – they had some really nasty, hinky, CROOKED deals cooked up behind the scenes that no one knew about.

I sincerely hope they both get exposed and thrown in prison soon for their crimes against humanity. Barzani too – he’s in this for his own interests. I GUARANTEE IT (Barzani’s motives – NOT AN RV)!!

P.S. to JWFLATT – who regularly asserts “on the internet” I GUARANTEED an RV some while ago, QUIT LYING!! I did no such thing. In fact, I rarely give a direct answer to such inquiries. Who can know?

There was, however, a man named SteveI, who was convinced an RV was imminent. He shared his opinion on the matter. He “guaranteed” the event. He has since passed away. Quit saying things that aren’t true and you might get to discuss it with him one day. Or not.

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Can Sadr swing Nonsectarian Government?

By Ali Mamouri for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.

After the Sairoon (On the Move) Alliance emerged victorious in the May 12 Iraqi elections, its leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, has been seeking meetings with the leaders of the other top-vote-getting alliances to discuss the possibility of forming the largest bloc in the new parliament and ultimately form the new Cabinet.

At a May 19 joint press conference after talks with Sadr, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, whose Al-Nasr (Victory) Alliance came in third, said, “During our meeting, we agreed to work together and with other parties to expedite the process of forming a new Iraqi government.”

A few days later, on May 22, Al-Nasr spokesman Hussein al-Adeli said Abadi had reached an agreement with Sadr on a map for forming a new government. Abadi himself, in his weekly press conference the same day, said his coalition was close to reaching an understanding with the Sairoon Alliance “to form a strong technocratic government.”

In a May 20 meeting with Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the second-place Fatah Alliance, consisting of the political wings of the pro-Iran militias of the Popular Mobilization Units, Sadr had said, “The process of government formation must be a national decision, and importantly, must include the participation of all the winning blocs along a national path.”

Sadr appeared to select the phrasing “national decision” and “national path” especially for Amiri, who had days earlier met in Baghdad with Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, in an attempt to form a pro-Iranian parliamentary bloc.

Sadr also held talks with Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Hikma Alliance, on May 21 and spoke of the importance of forming the upcoming government in a way that ensures “fixing the path of the political process to suit the aspirations of the Iraqi people who reject sectarianism and corruption.”

Sadr also met May 21 with Iyad al-Allawi, leader of the predominantly Sunni Al-Wataniyah Alliance, and two days earlier had received a letter from Kosrat Rasoul Ali, first deputy for the secretary-general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in line with discussions on potential alliances requiring Sunni and Kurdish participation alongside the Shiite majority to form a government.

After failing to assemble a parliamentary bloc under Iranian auspices consisting of the four largest Shiite lists — the State of Law Coalition and the Al-Nasr, Hikma and Fatah Alliances — Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi attempted to lure Sadr to his side to prevent the formation of an anti-Iran government. Masjedi told Iran’s Al-Alam TV May 21, “Iran has constructive relations with all parties, blocs and coalitions that won the majority of parliamentary seats in the fourth elections.”

Masjedi also denied rumors of a dispute between the Iranian leadership and Sadr, saying, “Iran’s relations with Sadr are historical and deep-seated. The country had close relations with the martyrs Mohammed Baqr and Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr [Muqtada’s uncle and father, respectively].” Masjedi added, “Iranian officials’ relations with Sadr are friendly and brotherly, and many of them, including Soleimani, appreciate Sadr greatly.”

In fact, Sadr’s father and Iranian officials were not friendly at all. His representative in Iran, Jaafar al-Sadr, son of Mohammad Baqr, was arrested and his office shuttered in Qom in 1998. In addition, everything indicates that relations between Muqtada and Iran have gone downhill as well in recent years.

Sadr had made several statements critical of Iranian interference in Iraqi decision-making, and his alliance competed against the pro-Iran lists — Al-Fatah and the State of Law Coalition — in the elections. In the preceding years, Sadr’s supporters chanted slogans against Iran at protests calling for reform. Sadr, unlike his rivals Maliki and Amiri, has not met with Soleimani in recent years.

Sadr greeted a group of ambassadors from neighboring countries May 19 after his list’s victory was confirmed. In attendance were the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and Syria. Official Iranian websites, including Al-Alam’s, criticized Sadr’s relations with Saudi Arabia and charged that Riyadh had been behind Iran’s exclusion from the meeting.

Sadr insists that the largest parliamentary bloc include all Iraqi components, which would be unprecedented if successful. The largest parliamentary bloc has always consisted solely of Shiite parties, which then negotiated with Kurdish and Sunni blocs over forming the government.

On May 21, Sadr tweeted, “I am Muqtada. I am Shiite, Sunni, Christian, Saebean, Yazidi, Islamist, civil, Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian, Turkmen, Chaldean and Shabak. I am Iraqi. Do not expect me to side with any sect against the other to renew enmities and lead to our demise. We are headed toward a comprehensive Iraqi alliance.”

Al-Hayat newspaper on May 21 cited Iraqi sources close to Sadr discussing efforts to bring together Abadi, Allawi, Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani and Sunni Al-Qarar Alliance leader Khamis al-Khanjar to explore forming the leading parliamentary bloc with all their parties’ participation. If Sadr succeeds, Iraq might overcome sectarian quotas in forming a government, and Iranian influence would dwindle with its political allies, Al-Fatah and the State of Law Coalition, excluded from the bloc.

Article Credit: Iraq-businessnews.com

BGG ~ While this was originally published in one of the most reputable Middle East outlets… this isn’t a real question. It is clearly rhetorical. He can – the real question isn’t can he, the real question is – “Will everyone else..”? Things are shaping up well. I am very hopeful they come to a speedy resolution – without the corrupt.

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Why am I selling my Dinar?

Simple answer: I’m not – I’m buying. I only sell so that we can increase holdings. We keep everything we can afford to. That’s the general concept anyway.

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We helped. When their advertised buy-back was $500-600 (depending on condition) we were able to get one man $850 x 60 million and helped save his farm. We didn’t make much – but we helped. It was then I realized, if we were gonna’ keep this up, we ought to get registered as a dealer.

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Chattels (Dinar Guru) –   165 seats are necessary. Sadr’s Sairoon (54 seats), PM Abadi’s Nasr (42 seats), Hakim’s Hikma (19 seats), VP Allawi’s Wataniya (21 seats) and the KDP (25 seats) and Qarar (13 seats) makes a total of 173 if my math is correct. Can I get a “Bingo!“?  With the Kurds as part of the government we have the best chance to avoid quotas and establish an efficient majority government for legislation without consensus, IMO.  Godspeed the completion of the Iraqi Banking Sector Reform Project!

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Source: the convergence of these lists to form the largest bloc .. Amiri and Maliki outside the coalition!!

Baghdad today – A parliamentary source familiar with, on Wednesday, a “kind of convergence” between the blocks supporting the Prime Minister Haider Abadi and the block Sason and the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the National Alliance led by Iyad Allawi to form the largest parliamentary bloc.

The agency “Sputnik” Russian, the source, who was not named, saying, “The deliberations and consultations are taking place between the Iraqi parliamentary blocs that have the largest percentages in the recent elections to reach the majority necessary to form the next government.”

The source added that “the blocks that have occurred among them a kind of convergence are supporters of the current Prime Minister Haider Abadi and the block going, plus the Kurdistan Democratic Party and perhaps the mass of Iyad Allawi may join them the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,” asserting that “these can form the largest bloc Which can name the prime minister and form the next government. ”

He pointed out that “any of the blocs that have the largest percentages of seats can not individually form a government that needs more than 160 seats, and here the largest bloc are the Sadrist bloc, which did not reach 60 seats,” ruling out “Sadr’s alliance with the Maliki group or group Hadi al-Amiri. ”

He pointed out that “the group Abadi is the closest to the block going because it acquires 47 seats and thus the total seats of the two blocs more than 100 seats,” noting that “they need 60 others, and may come from the Kurdish blocs and Allawi bloc.”

Article Credit: Baghdadtoday.news (Special Thanks to Tim Tarkington)

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Sadr announces completion of final touches of government

Alsumaria News / Baghdad – The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr announced on Wednesday the completion of the final touches of the government, indicating that it is a genuine Iraqi government and opposition to constructive political and peaceful peace.

“Today, I have completed the picture and I have completed the final touches after you have completed the advice and satisfied you with the government,” Sadr said in a tweet followed by Alsumaria News. “It is a Sunni, Shiite, Arab, Kurdish, nationalist and non-sectarian government. Political peace “.

“We will brief them on the details of the many meetings so that they can have good sayings, and then we will wait for the honest and patriotic blocs that are precious to form a strong patriarchal government that will give the people their rights,” he said.

The leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr met with a number of officials in the Iraqi government and heads of blocs and coalitions, including Prime Minister Haider Abadi, and discussed with them the formation of the next government and its program.

Article Credit: Alsumaria.tv
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sandyf (Dinar Guru) –   It is a fact that Iraq has for years discussed the project to delete the 3 zeros.  It is a fact that ten years ago that Iraq considered the “Turkey model” for their redenomination.  It is a fact that in April 2012 the Iraqi cabinet postponed the redenomination indefinitely. It is a fact that in 2009 an investigative report was published into redenominations.  It is a fact that the 2009 report concluded that a major contributor to a “successful” redenomination was low inflation.  It is a fact that a redenomination introduces a new national currency and that the previous national currency co-exists in-country for a period of time. It would become an ISO historical currency.  It is a fact that ISO historical currencies are not recognised internationally…

BGG ~ There are some claims here that I simply don’t agree with… the actual text of the noted articles show differently.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader and head of Hikma party Ammar al-Hakim (L) and Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr meet in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on May 17, 2018. Photo: Haidar Hamdani / AFP

Sadr meets Hakim to discuss possible governing alliance

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the winning election alliance Sayirun, has met with the prominent Shia leader Ammar al-Hakim, head of the National Hikma (Wisdom) Movement, in Najaf to discuss forming a government.

Both sides say they agree on the need to form a representative government.

“I am thankful to the Iraqi people who voted in the current elections, those who helped reform triumph. [For] even those who abstained from voting, thank you, as they didn’t give their votes to the corrupt,” Sadr told journalists following the meeting.

“God willing, we are looking at a new stage for building in Iraq a democratic, paternal and technocratic government,” Sadr added.

The two leaders have not always been on good terms, according to many sources, with Sadr once saying he would not engage with Hakim politically or share a platform with him prior to the election.

Hakim’s alliance came out as the sixth largest party in the election, even trailing behind the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), with a preliminary result of 22 seats.

Hakim termed the meeting a “valuable opportunity,” where they discussed the election and its results and potential party combinations in government.

“We examined the necessity of forming a government that is national, strong, independent in its political decisions, dependent on the will of the free Iraqi nation, and with a national orientation that transcends components and represents all the sons of the people of Iraq,” Hakim told journalists.

Talk of a possible Sayirun-Hikma alliance marks a good start, Hakim said. Both leaders are open to further talks with any party standing on an anti-corruption, cross-sectarian and cross-ethnic, and pro-reform platform, he added.

He also called on the election commission to seriously examine complaints and allegations of fraud.

“It is clear that the decrease in turnout in elections is a message from the people of Iraq that they want new faces, serious programs and steps to provide the necessary and proper services to the sons of our people,” Hakim added.

Sadr has said he could support incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for a second term, owing to similarities in their election pitch.

In a recent pun-heavy tweet, Sadr hinted at potential alliances he wishes to see in an upcoming government.

The KDP, Abadi’s Nasr (Victory) Alliance, Hakim’s Hikma, and some other parties were included in the tweet. It is not clear whether Sadr deliberately omitted Hashd al-Shaabi’s Fatih and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) among others.

Brett McGurk, the US special presidential envoy, met with former Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani and PM Nechirvan Barzani in a bid to influence the shape of the next government.

Meanwhile, Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s (IRGC) extraterritorial Quds Force, is in southern Iraq seeking to assemble a pro-Iran Shia majority government among the divided Shia blocs.

Article Credit: Rudaw.net 
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Mnt Goat (Dinar Guru) –   Article:  “MOQTADA AL-SADR, AGREED TO GIVE PRIME MINISTER HAIDER ABADI A SECOND TERM, DURING THE MEETING THEY HAD JUST GATHERED IN BAGHDAD”  Okay so now we know Al-Abadi is going to be the next prime minister. We also gain some more insight at to the two conditions that al-Sadr is requiring of him. 1) fight corruption all the way to the top levels of govt 2) publish the list of names of those corrupt political officials.You can bet that on his mind is going after this Nori al-Maliki.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) –   I stated last week that current PM al-Abadi does not want to be PM again.  Today, some news surfaced that seems to support that.  There may very well be a new PM chosen.

Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Iraqi parliament decides to hold an extraordinary session on Thursday

Khandan – Is scheduled to hold the Iraqi Council of Representatives on Thursday, an extraordinary session to discuss the parliamentary elections that took place on May 12.

The Information Service of the House of Representatives in a statement reported by local media, the Presidency of the House of Representatives decided to hold a special session at the fourth hour of the afternoon on Thursday, May 24.

She pointed out that the convening of the meeting was based on the request made by a number of deputies who throw the focus on the transparency and integrity of the electoral process.

The House of Representatives held a deliberative session last Saturday in the presence of 105 deputies to discuss the elections. The President of the Council, Salim al-Jubouri, announced that the Presidency will direct a book containing the demand for the Electoral Commission to take all means to ensure confidence in the electoral process, including random counting and referral Criminal cases to the competent authorities in cases where mismanagement of the integrity of the electoral process and providing the political entities with an electronic copy a photocopy of the results sent via satellite and verify the process of matching data sent electronically with B The funds are counted through the counting of funds, as well as the request of the electoral judiciary to deal with appeals in a very thorough and impartial manner.

Article Credit: Xendan.org

BGG ~ Can’t you just hear that SUCKING SOUND?? It’s the SWEET SOUND of the Iraqi S-W-A-M-P going down the drain!!

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Some interesting headlines…

Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s bloc wins Iraq election

Why Iraq’s election is a remarkable victory for democracy

Leaders of the Dawa Party are seeking to revive a previous agreement between Abadi and Maliki

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Iraq’s Maliki to engage in more negotiations with Kurds on next govt

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki’s coalition intends to continue recent talks with kurdish political representatives regarding the formation of the next Iraqi government, his office said.

Hisham al-Rikabi, director of Maliki’s office, said in statements on Wednesday that the State of the Law coalition will launch a new phase of talks within the next couple of days with Kurdish political forces after a meeting between Maliki and a former Kurdish president, Masud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in Baghdad yesterday.

According to Rikabi, “the meeting between the head of the State of the Law Coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, and the KDP delegation in Baghdad has resulted into resolving lots of past issues between both sides, as well as reaching understandings in relation to the formation of the largest parliamentary bloc”.

Iraqi parliament elections, the first after victory over Islamic State militants, were held on 12th of this month, with results, announced on 19th. Maliki’s list came forth according to the final outcome.

No list has ensured an outright majority, and according to the constitution, the new government should be announced before 90 days after the announcement of results.

Kurds, whose relations with the central government in Baghdad deteriorated since they voted for independence in September, are anxious to secure a place in the next government. Kurdish representatives have met with various political groups, including Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose list came first in the polls.

Kurds have been at loggerheads with Maliki, a former prime minister who is widely blamed for stoking sectarianism and for Islamic State’s takeover of Iraqi territories by the end of his term in 2014.

Article Credit: Iraqinews.com

BGG ~ I really, really, really hope these two jackwaggons go ahead and do a FRUITLESS, IGNORANT, self-serving deal in public and GET RAM-JACKED for it.

ABOUT TIME!!

For our newcomers – these two guys are responsible for all kinds of hideous outcomes for much of the Middle East and likely why we should have seen value change in the Dinar as far back as 2012 but still haven’t.

The reason – they had some really nasty, hinky, CROOKED deals cooked up behind the scenes that no one knew about.

I sincerely hope they both get exposed and thrown in prison soon for their crimes against humanity. Barzani too – he’s in this for his own interests. I GUARANTEE IT (Barzani’s motives – NOT AN RV)!!

P.S. to JWFLATT – who regularly asserts “on the internet” I GUARANTEED an RV some while ago, QUIT LYING!! I did no such thing. In fact, I rarely give a direct answer to such inquiries. Who can know?

There was, however, a man named SteveI, who was convinced an RV was imminent. He shared his opinion on the matter. He “guaranteed” the event. He has since passed away. Quit saying things that aren’t true and you might get to discuss it with him one day. Or not.

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Post RV Checklist (it’s getting to be that time!! Listen up!!)

Dos and Don’ts of Windfall Wealth:

Treat it like a PowerBall win

– Tell no one, not even family. If you must talk, do so with one who is already in the know.

– Don’t run out & buy new “stuff”. People notice.

– Get an unpublished number and give it out very sparingly.

– Get a tax accountant you can trust to make sure the IRS is satisfied (Certified Opinion is something to look into) and pursue asset protection…

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