IRAQI DINAR POLITICS & ECONOMY

Iraq: agree to resort to the Constitution and the Conventions of Arbil

26/02/2012 08:03

Baghdad, February 26 (Rn) – The Iraqi List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a Sunday, that an agreement finally took place between the political blocs spend Judging by the Constitution and the Conventions of Arbil and the political consensus to resolve the outstanding issues, revealing the existence of a positive atmosphere that leads to access to the worksheet the Standard. and Representatives of the political blocs of the three main (the National Alliance, and the Iraqi List, the Kurdistan Alliance) Four meetings raised which leaves each block and vision to alter the course of the political process as had been postponed last Thursday, the date of the fifth meeting of the Committee. Read more…

Report: Iraq ranked last in the list of environmental index for 2012

26/02/2012 12:20

Erbil, February 26 (Rn) – An international report said that Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iraq, of the countries that top the list for a long time in the highest degree of corruption and classifications freedoms, and now add another assessment disappointing to this list, they are also in the bottom of the index of environmental performance or the (EPI) in 2012. and produced the index by researchers at the universities of Yale and Columbia in the United States, in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, and ranked 132 countries, across 10 categories including politics, the environment, including air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity and management forestry, and fisheries management. Read more…

Newspaper: the Iraq war showed the risk of intelligence

25/02/2012 14:48

Beirut, February 24 (Rn) – seen by Gideon Rachman in the newspaper “Financial Times” that the British “the threat of war on Iran has become more serious than ever before despite the caveats that damage to this issue,” and warned against repeating the mistake to rely on intelligence information as was before the Iraq war . Rachtman said that “Israeli fears of Iran having a nuclear weapon is behind the conflict.” He said that the Israel of the development by Iran of its nuclear facilities under the ground, which made ​​the U.S. Secretary of Defense predicts a possible Israeli strike in the coming months. Read more…

Iran: a military strike will lead to “collapse” of Israel

25/02/2012 15:22

Erbil, February 25 (Rn) – The Iranian defense minister on Saturday, that Israel “on the verge of disintegration,” and that a military strike would “lead to the collapse of the” Jewish state, according to the TV run by the state. said Brigadier General Ahmad Wahidi said an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to “collapse” of the Jewish state and that “the Zionist regime on the verge of disintegration, since any military attack by him will no doubt to the collapse of this system.” As the relocation of Iranian state television. and Site Description “statements by Israeli officials about launching an attack against Iran Balsakharh.”  Read more…

URGENT: for the first time in the history of Iraq, the budget provides for the distribution of cash from oil exports increase on the citizens

Thursday, February 23, 2012 23:34

Agency learned of all of Iraq [where] the law of the financial budget approved by the House of Representatives tonight obliging the government to distribute cash money on the people and for the first time in the history of Iraq.

And provided a special paragraph so that the “Federal Council of Ministers on the allocation of 25% of the increase in revenues from exports of crude oil source generated during the year 2012 after the payment of disability and shall be deposited in the fund be distributed in cash for the Read more…

Member of the Economic Commission: Iraq has a large reserve of gold is not affected by the volatility of world prices

On: Friday 2/24/2012 9:57

Baghdad (news) .. A member of the Economic Commission deputy / coalition in Iraq / Qusay Gomaa said Iraq will not be affected by fluctuations in the price of gold in international markets because it has large reserves of gold and jewelry.
said Friday (the Agency news): that the rise winning the gold price on world markets is the result of economic crises witnessed by some of the world, which also led to increased food prices and commodities in general being affected with each other.
ruled affected by the local markets to increase taking place at prices world gold the result of what is owned by Iraq’s large reserves of gold, Read more…

Iraqi parliament approved the budget worth 100.5 billion 2012 dollars

24/02/2012 07:39

Baghdad, February 24 (Rn) – was approved by the Iraqi parliament on Thursday the budget in 2012, worth 100.5 billion dollars after a delay of weeks because of disagreements on how it was spent, which is usually accompanied by the adoption of state budget finances. and proceeded House of Representatives to vote on budget items yesterday afternoon and continued the meeting until the middle of the night in the presence of 248 deputies, and headed by Osama Najafi. and approved the budget on the basis of the average oil price of $ 85 a barrel and an average crude exports of 2.6 million barrels a day. The budget forecasts a deficit of $ 12.6 billion will be funded the bulk of it from the surplus in the calculation of the Development Fund for Iraq to Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Read more…

Zebari discuss with Jeffrey to prepare for the Arab summit and the withdrawal of Iraq from the provisions of Chapter VII

Date: Monday 20/02/2012 17:23

Baghdad (news) .. Search Hoshyar Zebari, the Foreign Minister with U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey, adopted in Baghdad, preparing for the upcoming Arab Summit and the full withdrawal of Iraq from the provisions of Chapter VII.
A statement by the Foreign received the Agency (news) a copy of it on Monday: The two sides discussed relations, Iraq – U.S. and mechanisms of the U.S. Embassy and consulates in Iraq. Read more…

Allawi’s movement in Kirkuk demanding change material constitution of Kurdistan

23/02/2012 12:07

Kirkuk, February 23 (Rn) – A representative of the National Accord Movement, led by the existing Iraqi President Iyad Allawi in Kirkuk, Thursday, to change the articles of the Constitution of the Kurdistan region, especially those related to Kirkuk. Article II of the draft constitution of Kurdistan that region geographical entity history consists of Dohuk governorate boundaries current management and the provinces of Kirkuk and Sulaimaniya, Arbil and the districts of Akre, Shikhan, Sinjar and Tall Afar and Qaraqosh and aspects of Piper and Bashiqa and ASCII all your from the province of Nineveh, and judicial Khanaqin and Mandali, Diyala, and that its administrative borders before 1968. Read more…

Turkey to buy 100 aircraft fighter F-35 aircraft from the United States

23/02/2012 17:53

Erbil, February 23 (Rn) – The media sources Turkey said on Thursday that Turkey plans to buy 100 fighter aircraft from the F – 35 of the United States, according to the site Khepri Turkish. A site Turkey today that “the Turkish Minister of Defense Ismet Yilmaz announced that Turkey plans to buy 100 fighter aircraft F – 35 during the next few years, to be delivered two of them by 2015. The total value of the deal, about $ 16 billion. ” The site that “the Turkish Minister of Defense said that the meetings which they conducted with the U.S. side in this matter and reached a specific stage, in order to the possibility of adding a program of war and the integration of weapons / ammunition in aircraft from F – 35 independently. Read more…

Iraq: Maliki to resign if the violence did not stop

23/02/2012 13:08

Erbil, February 23 (Rn) – The Iraqi National List led by Iyad Allawi on Thursday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to resign if you do not stop the “bleeding”. and killed about 50 people at least and wounding dozens in a series of attacks in different parts of Iraq were concentrated mostly in the Baghdad. These attacks come after a day of warning al-Maliki that 

Report: Military intervention in the Gulf region will increase the severity of violence

22/02/2012 15:17

Beirut, February 22 (Rn) – Based on the intervention of Saudi Arabia in Bahrain to suppress 

Iraq improve conditions in the fourth round of energy auctions

22/02/2012 18:46

Erbil, February 22 (Rn) – An Iraqi Oil Ministry said on Wednesday that Iraq has improved the conditions that will be put under which 12 areas to explore for oil and gas in the fourth round of auctions of energy, after the companies said the deal is attractive. and deferred the Ministry of Oil round Auctions several times to give interested companies more time to study a modified version of the draft contract. It is expected now to run auctions on 30-31 May. Reuters quoted Sabah Abdul Kadhim, director of the Legal Department in the management of contracts and licenses, the Ministry of Oil as saying that the ministry has modified the contract in principle Read more…

The return of the debate on Article 140 with the imminent reconciliation conference in Iraq

22/02/2012 17:16

Kirkuk, February 22 (Rn) – returned the controversy between the components of the province of Kirkuk from the Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen on Article 140 of the disputed areas between the Baghdad government, federal and Erbil, the regional with near a conference of reconciliation among Iraqi political blocs. and rejects the political council of the Arab in Kirkuk, the inclusion of Article 140 of the the permanent constitution on the agenda of the conference, while emphasizing the Kurds on the need to insert the file at the conference, which will include the political forces in Baghdad, while leaving the Turkmen subject to political compromise. Article 140 of the constitution to resolve Read more…

Iraq offers investors ultra-high risk-reward bet

Iraq offers investors ultra-high risk-reward bet

Iraqi traders write on a stock exchange board in Baghdad. Iraq is a long-play, according to local-brokerage Rabee Securities By Una Galani/Dubai Are you a global investor looking for an ultra-high risk-reward option? Consider Iraq.The perils are well known—possible civil war at the top of the list—but the Baghdad main index is still up 32% over two years, outperforming its Middle East rivals. This year has started less well—drops are hardly a surprise for a fractious country in a volatile region—but this frontier market has many of the ingredients of success. Read more…

Israel may use Iraqi airspace to attack

21/02/2012 11:09

Iran, Beirut, February 21 (AKnews) – The “New York Times,” the U.S. report quoted the words of the interviews conducted with U.S. military officials and analysts close to the Pentagon, reviewed the causes of difficult for Israel to attack Iran.  the paper quoted the U.S. for those saying he was ” If Israel decided to bomb Iran will have to pilots flying for a distance of a thousand miles in the air unfriendly, and refueling in the air, and the fight against Iranian air defenses, and attack multiple sites under the ground at the same time, the use of 100 aircraft, at least. ”  According to the report, “by Iraq is the most easily where there is no air defenses of Iraq, and that after the withdrawal of U.S. forces no longer the United States is obliged to defend Iraqi airspace. Read more…

Newspaper: the Green Zone in Baghdad has turned into a ghost town

21/02/2012 12:15

Beirut, February 21 (AKnews) – turned into the Green Zone in central Baghdad, set up by U.S. forces, the area was a center it was also known as the international zone into a ghost town, and after that took place recently under the full control of the Iraqi government, according to what was concluded by the newspaper “Washington Post” campaign.   In this context, the paper said the U.S. that “the army and Iraqi police recently raided the offices of private security companies that were operating inside the country and urged the institutions and businesses that were based upon to change their places.”  the newspaper quoted the President of the International Association for Stability Operations Doug Brooks, a trade group representing foreign companies and non-profit organizations in Iraq as saying “We have achieved a win-win situation where it is impossible to them about staying there Read more…

Beginning to melt the ice between the two countries .. Government welcomes the appointment of an ambassador to Saudi Arabia in Iraq

On: Tuesday 21/02/2012 12:06

Baghdad (news) .. A source close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki welcomed al-Maliki in particular and the Iraqi government in general appoint Saudi Arabia as an ambassador in Iraq, after a lapse of more than 20 years. 
said the source (of the Agency news) said on Tuesday: The Saudi decision to appoint an ambassador in Baghdad, received a very welcome by the Iraqi government and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in particular, which is the decision the beginning of a thaw between Baghdad and Riyadh.  Read more…

Israeli official calls for Syria to exploit the crisis to confront Iran

Israeli official calls for Syria to exploit the crisis to confront Iran

20/02/2012 19:58

Beirut, February 20 (Rn) – The newspaper “Los Angeles Times,” the U.S. for the former director of Israeli intelligence Mossad Ephraim Halevy, saying the turmoil in Syria, is an opportunity to confront Iran’s nuclear program. Halevy said in the interview with the newspaper the U.S. it is imperative Israel, which was busy in recent weeks to discuss the question of a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, to take advantage of the opportunity to the Syrian crisis to blow a political and diplomatic to Iran by dropping the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.The official Israeli previous to that in the case of regime fell Damascus, It was the coalition Syrian – Iranian, that would be a defeat appalling to Iran. Read more…

Vice-Awadi: a secret deal between Baghdad and Kurdistan to pass the oil and gas law

Date: Monday 20/2/2012 9:22

Baghdad (news) .. A member of the Committee on Energy and Oil MP / National Alliance / Awadalawada the existence of a secret agreement between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on the establishment of oil and gas law to serve the reality of the oil of Kurdistan. 
said Al-Awadi (of the Agency news) said on Monday: The objections submitted to the law of oil and gas policy before they are technical, resulting in a foul and not approved by the House of Representatives, and is intended to benefit the party at the expense of the other. 
He added that there is a secret agreement held between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on the adoption of oil and gas law Read more…