An official at the Central Bank of Iraq comments on Washington’s suspension of cash shipments to Baghdad.
An official at the Central Bank of Iraq comments on Washington’s suspension of cash shipments to Baghdad.
2026-04-22
Shafaq News – Baghdad
Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing an official at the Central Bank of Iraq, that no notification had been issued by Washington to halt any cash shipments to the country.
The Iraqi official said that “a shipment that was expected to arrive in April has not yet arrived, and the status of another shipment that was expected to arrive in May is unclear.”
A source in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said that “Washington warned Baghdad through diplomatic channels that it will no longer tolerate the government’s failure to rein in the pro-Iranian militias, which have representation in parliament and the government.”
The warning noted “attacks attributed to Iraqi factions against American targets, including repeated strikes on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and the U.S. Consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Syria.”
The Wall Street Journal revealed earlier on Wednesday that the administration of US President Donald Trump has suspended dollar shipments to Iraq and frozen funding for security cooperation programs with the government.
The newspaper quoted officials as saying that the US Treasury Department recently blocked the transfer of an air shipment of about $500 million in banknotes, proceeds from Iraqi oil sales, from Federal Reserve Bank accounts in New York to Iraq, due to US concerns about “Iraqi factions.”
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