Sources: Iraq’s oil imports are in danger because America confiscates them and prevents them from being sent to the Central Bank of Iraq
Sources: Iraq’s oil imports are in danger because America confiscates them and prevents them from being sent to the Central Bank of Iraq
03-22-2024
The following issue requires a movement from the conscious national elites, politicians and MPs, turning it into an issue of public opinion and pressure to achieve it – if the documents and evidence contained are authentic.*
Save the number 13303
It is the number of the rope with which the United States is strangling Iraq and its governments
In mid-May, Biden will extend Presidential Decree No. 13303, which stipulates that the United States will continue to control the Development Fund, into which the funds for ethnic oil and its derivatives are transferred, in accordance with the American Emergency Law, and for reasons described as “an extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
The farce is that there was a Security Council resolution in 2010 No. (1956) requiring the closure of the Development Fund after it was no longer needed and the transfer of all the money in it to the Central Bank of Iraq. The closure was voted unanimously (i.e. with America’s approval as well), but America did not commit to implementing it. The decision, and no Iraqi government has asked it to implement it until this moment!
Even before this date, the Security Council resolution in May 2003 confirmed that Iraq’s funds were placed in the custody of the Central Bank of Iraq, and the US Federal Bank was not mentioned at all in it.
What happened is that on the same day the Security Council issued the decision to establish the Development Fund, US President George Bush attacked this fund a few hours later and signed the fateful presidential decree No. 13303, which placed Iraqi money under his control under the pretext of protecting it. Thus, the American President became the direct custodian of everything owned by Iraq, but… according to American law, not international law.
On December 15, 2010, the UN Security Council unanimously issued Resolution No. 1956, after the letter sent by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to the Council at the time. The decision stipulated that the fund would be canceled and UN supervision over it would end no later than June 30, 2011. The end of supervision meant the end of supervision as well, and since then until this moment, the American administration is the one who receives the oil money and is the only one who monitors and controls itself. How much of it goes to Iraq and how much stays there?
When Iraq needs to buy cooking oil and milk for children, for example, these requests go to the Ministry of Finance, where there is an American employee who has an office in the Iraqi Ministry of Finance to review the list and indicate which requests are accepted and which are rejected, and then the list is sent to the Central Bank of Iraq, which in turn addresses the bank. The US Federal Reserve requests the amount, and if it agrees, the amount is sent in bags on planes!
The fact that the Security Council terminated the Development Fund reveals the process of deception and misinformation practiced by Iraqi politicians and media figures to hide the fact that Iraqi governments, since 2010 until today, have been colluding with the American occupation to violate Security Council Resolution No. 1956 in order for the United States to continue to control Iraqi oil revenues. No government attempted to change this unfair and humiliating reality against Iraq for fear that the rope around her neck would be tightened and she would die in her place.
This explains why successive Iraqi governments do not have any future five-year or ten-year plans, because they receive their expenses from the Americans and do not know at what moment their expenses will be cut off.
The issue of Title Seven, with which they are trying to intimidate Iraq, was completely ended by Security Council Resolution No. 2107 in June 2013.
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