Article Flashback: “Abdul Hussein al-Yasiri, a member of the Iraqi parliamentary Finance Committee…2014 will witness the deletion of zeros from the Iraqi currency. He noted that the deletion will occur in coordination with the CBI, and that as a result of the project, the number of banknotes in circulation will be reduced from 4 billion to 1 billion.” Opening of cash centers as planned is another method to reduce the note count as stated in this past delete the zeros article snippet.