“Go out to your people and reduce the dollar.” A demonstration begins in front of the Central Bank of Iraq.
“Go out to your people and reduce the dollar.” A demonstration begins in front of the Central Bank of Iraq.
2023-01-25 00:12
Shafaq News/ A demonstration was launched this morning, Wednesday, by hundreds of citizens who came from various Iraqi governorates in front of the Central Bank in central Baghdad, to protest against the rise in the exchange rates of the US dollar against the dinar and the cause of an economic crisis.
Shafaq News agency reporter stated that hundreds of citizens demonstrated in Al-Rashid Street, where the headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq is located, in central Baghdad, to demand an end to speculation in the exchange rates of the dollar, indicating that the demonstrators demanded that urgent economic measures be taken, the return of the dollar exchange rate within the official context, and accountability of the corrupt.
The demonstrators also demanded, through loudspeakers, that Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani go out to the people and announce realistic measures to alleviate the crisis and restore prices to stability.
The demonstrators raised sarcastic demands, demanding that an artist intervene in resolving the issue “according to her relations with politicians,” while some wrote on his banner that “politicians are covering up banking corruption and transfer companies.”
Today, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior revealed, to Shafaq News agency, that a number of “unlicensed” exchange offices and banks dealing in the process of selling dollars outside the Central Bank’s controls were closed. higher than the specified price.
Since November 2022, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar has witnessed a gradual increase, reaching its highest levels in recent days, as it exceeded the barrier of 165 thousand dinars per 100 dollars.
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