On Trump’s Table: Iraq’s Rafidain Bank Faces Threat of US Sanctions
On Trump’s Table: Iraq’s Rafidain Bank Faces Threat of US Sanctions
2025-01-30 07:29
Shafaq News/ The US Republican representative renewed his attack on Iraq, this time by demanding sanctions on the government-owned Rafidain Bank, accusing it of being a “machine” for laundering money for the Iranian regime and its agents to obtain dollars.
Wilson wrote in a blog post on the X platform that “the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, under Joe Biden and his envoy (Brett McGurk), have allowed Rafidain Bank, which is (the largest government bank in Iraq), to become a money laundering machine for the Iranian regime and its agents to obtain US dollars.”
The Republican representative stressed the need to “impose sanctions on this bank (Rafidain Bank),” noting that President Donald Trump “will fix the matter.”
Yesterday, Wednesday, Wilson attacked the previous administration headed by Joe Biden, because of its policy towards Iraq and Iran over the past years .
“Iraq continues to send $10 billion annually to Iran to buy oil and electricity, thanks to the US exemption,” Wilson wrote in a blog post on the X platform.
He believed that “this (American) exemption strengthens the regime in Tehran, and keeps Iraq subject to Iranian influence,” stressing the necessity of “canceling this exemption, so that Iraq can obtain energy from the Arab world,” concluding by saying: “Trump will fix this matter.”
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