Iraq ranked 98th globally and 12th in the Arab world in the Soft Power Index for 2025

Iraq ranked 98th globally and 12th in the Arab world in the Soft Power Index for 2025

2025-02-21 04:31

Shafaq News/ Iraq ranked 98th in the world, and 12th in the Arab world, in the Soft Power Index for 2025.

The United States topped the index, while an Arab country was Read more…

Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 2-20-2025

Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 2-20-2025

2-20-2025 Intel Guru MarkZ [via PDK] Question: What happened to the bond people that got paid. I thought bonds were supposed to kick everything off? MarkZ: the bond folks who got money are the facilitators…not the bond holders. When the bond holders get their money …we are very close. On the positive side…things just lit up. A number of bond holders have told me they expect to get their payments late this week into early next week. This has come from many sources on 3 different continents. Since it came from so many sources I believe it’s safe to say that bond holders will soon have cash. It is my understanding the bond holders should get full payments. Read more…

Foreign currency sale results for Thursday 2025-2-20

Foreign currency sale results for Thursday 2025-2-20

Foreign currency sale results for Thursday 2025/2/20

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Rafidain Bank announces the launch of an electronic system for processing customer transactions electronically

Rafidain Bank announces the launch of an electronic system for processing customer transactions electronically

2025/02/20

Rafidain Bank announced today, Thursday, the launch of a new electronic system called Q System to manage and organize customer waiting inside its branches. This system aims to reduce waiting periods and improve customer experience by arranging priorities in providing service.
The General Manager of Rafidain Bank said Read more…

Mysterious alert at the American Harir base in Erbil and sudden closure of entrances

Mysterious alert at the American Harir base in Erbil and sudden closure of entrances

2-20-2025

Information/ Erbil…
A security source revealed, on Thursday, the sudden closure of the Harir base, where US forces are deployed in Erbil, amid an unprecedented security alert.

The source told Al-Maalouma, “The American forces deployed at the Harir base near Erbil closed all the main entrances to the base suddenly and urgently at dawn Read more…

Expert warns of imminent financial crisis in Iraq

Expert warns of imminent financial crisis in Iraq

2-20-2025

Al-Maalouma / Special..
Economic expert Nabil Al-Marsoumi warned today, Thursday, of the turbulent financial situation in Iraq, indicating that the country may face a major financial crisis if global oil prices continue to decline and appropriate economic solutions Read more…

Report reveals the lie of the USAID-funded “Sesame Street Iraq” program

Report reveals the lie of the USAID-funded “Sesame Street Iraq” program

2-20-2025

Information/ Translation …
A report by the American website Snoop revealed, on Thursday, the lie of the Sesame Street Iraq program, which the United States Agency for International Development claimed to fund, as only $473,784 was paid, while the agency claimed to have spent $20 million, which suggests that it was stolen from the American Read more…

Grand Faw Port.. Advanced rates of completion of the container handling yard project

Grand Faw Port.. Advanced rates of completion of the container handling yard project

2025-02-20 02:22

Shafaq News/ The Director General of the General Company for Iraqi Ports, Farhan Al-Fartousi, announced on Thursday that advanced completion rates have been achieved in the container handling yard project, one of the five infrastructure projects in the Grand Faw Port.

Al-Fartousi told Shafak News Agency, “The completion rates of the container Read more…

Nechirvan Barzani receives a “written” thank-you letter from Trump

Nechirvan Barzani receives a “written” thank-you letter from Trump

2025-02-20 06:05

Shafaq News/ The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, received a written message from US President Donald Trump on Thursday.

A statement by the presidency of the region, received by Shafaq News Agency, stated that Trump expressed in his message his thanks Read more…

Zelensky is trapped.. Musk accuses him of murder and Trump gives Russia the upper hand

Zelensky is trapped.. Musk accuses him of murder and Trump gives Russia the upper hand

2025-02-20

Shafaq News/ American billionaire Elon Musk, a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of killing American journalist Gonzalo Lira, at a time when Trump believes that the Russians are in a position to negotiate an end to the war Read more…

Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 2-19-2025

Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 2-19-2025

2-19-2025 Intel Guru Frank26 [Iraq boots-on-the-ground report] FIREFLY:
Saleh on television…he says the Iraqi dinar will regain its strength and the exchange rate will return to balance sooner or later. FRANK: This is the Finance Minister telling the Iraqi citizens, ‘Hey, the Iraqi dinar will regain its strength’. So you’re trying to tell us that 1310 is going to be soon removed… 1310 is an imbalanced rate. What is balanced? IMO anything at 1 to 1 and above… FIREFLY: He also said this decision depends on completing the methodology of the financial and banking reforms. FRANK: Consider this the final countdown. Read more…

Foreign currency sale results for Wednesday 2-19-2025

Foreign currency sale results for Wednesday 2-19-2025

Foreign currency sale results for Wednesday 2/19/2025

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Official denial of the spread of the “counterfeit” Iraqi dinar

Official denial of the spread of the “counterfeit” Iraqi dinar

2025-02-19

In recent days, Iraqi markets have witnessed a wide wave of warnings about the spread of large quantities of counterfeit (25) thousand Iraqi dinars, said to be coming from Iran. While citizens and traders confirm that they have noticed an influx of these suspicious banknotes, the Central Bank of Iraq has categorically Read more…

Expert warns of consequences of oil smuggling after budget amendments implemented

Expert warns of consequences of oil smuggling after budget amendments implemented

2-19-2025

Al-Maalouma / Special..
Economic expert Mustafa Hantoush warned, on Wednesday, of the serious consequences of the continued smuggling of oil from the Kurdistan Region in light of the implementation of the new amendments to the budget law.
Hantoush said in a statement Read more…

Restructuring Iraqi banks.. A government plan to protect the financial sector

Restructuring Iraqi banks.. A government plan to protect the financial sector

2025/02/19

The financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, confirmed today, Wednesday, that the government and the monetary authority are working on a comprehensive reform of the national banking system, with the aim of enhancing its stability and protecting it from Read more…

Expert: Talk about a shortage of cash is inaccurate and what is being circulated is exaggerated

Expert: Talk about a shortage of cash is inaccurate and what is being circulated is exaggerated

2-19-2025

Information / Special..
Financial expert and member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank, Ahmed Brihi, confirmed on Wednesday that the promotion through the media about the existence of a shortage in cash liquidity is inaccurate and contains great exaggerations and fallacies, stressing that there are no concerns Read more…

Financial expert: Bond offering helps support Iraq’s cash deficit

Financial expert: Bond offering helps support Iraq’s cash deficit

2025-02-19 02:34

Shafaq News/ Financial expert and former Director General of the Central Bank of Iraq, Mahmoud Dagher, explained on Wednesday that issuing financial bonds helps support the cash deficit and is a debt on the government.

Dagher told Shafaq News Agency, “The process of issuing financial bonds does not Read more…

Parliamentary Finance: US sanctions will exacerbate the dollar crisis.. and there is no government plan

Parliamentary Finance: US sanctions will exacerbate the dollar crisis.. and there is no government plan

2025-02-19 04:33

Shafaq News/ Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mustafa Al-Karawi, warned on Wednesday that any sanctions imposed by the US Treasury on Iraqi banks will lead to an increase in demand for the dollar in the local market, criticizing the absence of a clear government plan for monetary policy Read more…

Iraq hails Saudi Arabia’s hosting of US-Russia talks: important move for international peace

Iraq hails Saudi Arabia’s hosting of US-Russia talks: important move for international peace

2025-02-19

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed, on Wednesday, Baghdad’s welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosting the talks between the Russian Federation and the United States of America, stressing that this step represents an important move to enhance security and peace Read more…

Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 2-18-2025

Iraqi Dinar Guru opinions 2-18-2025

2-18-2025 Newshound/Intel Guru Mnt Goat you can now CLEARLY see that there has been massive corruption in Iraq and with the US keeping the Iraq dinar artificially suppressed… The new president Trump has a new policy towards Iraq and it is beginning to take form. This recent move of stopping the physical dollar CASH flow to Iraq is apparent…This was a huge move…I was told many times already by my CBI contact that this crisis is at the heart of why the CBI can not set the in-country revaluation rate to what they need to conduct the Project to Delete the Zeros… Read more…