5-7-2026 Newshound Guru Sandy Ingram The Iraqi dinar is tightly controlled and set and managed by the Central Bank of Iraq not by open forces like the Forex market. This is called a managed or pegged exchange rate. The CBI decides when or if the rate changes. Even during conflict, the rate can remain and has remained the same…
5-7-2026 Newshound/Intel Guru Fnu Lnu The CBI’s official rate remaining around 1,320 IQD per USD, with budget guidance around 1,300…The IMF says Iraq’s exchange-rate arrangement is a conventional peg, and that the Central Bank of Iraq has authority over exchange-rate policy. A bank rate sheet also shows 1 USD at 1,300 IQD and references 1,320 in the system, which is consistent with a managed official framework…
5-7-2026 Intel Guru Frank26 The gazette said some things I think they should not have said…IMSO, you know how we say we’re close? No, we’re there. We’re not walking down the ladder of the Lunar Module. We’re bouncing up and down on the moon.
5-7-2026 Newshound Guru Thom The cabinet map is the story today…A preliminary cabinet allocation map leaked to Shafaq News shows…US-designated terrorist Qais al-Khazali — is slated to receive the Labor Ministry, the Industry Ministry, and a deputy prime minister position. Washington explicitly demanded al-Zaidi exclude militia-linked figures from cabinet and senior posts before resuming dollar shipments. If this allocation holds, it puts al-Zaidi on a direct collision course with Washington before parliament even votes...If Khazali’s Sadiqoun bloc gets a deputy PM slot and two ministries, Washington’s “no militiamen in cabinet” red line is crossed…and dollar shipments stay frozen. Al-Zaidi has 72 hours to finalize his list.
5-7-2026 Newshound Guru Jeff Historically Iraq has always been slightly above Kuwait. Today Kuwait’s about $3.25…What brought the value of the currency down was sanctions. What happens when you take those sanctions off? If it reinstates wouldn’t that put it around the $3.22 which is where it devalued in 2003?
5-7-2026 Intel Guru Reset Intelligence The Gazette is Iraq’s mandatory channel for legal force. Laws, regulations and presidential decrees take effect on the date they are published, not before. Until a rate change appears in the Gazette, it is not law.
5-7-2026 Newshound Guru tishwash Article: “Parliament announces it will receive the government program from Al-Zidi by the end of this week.” Quote: Parliament Speaker Hebat al-Halbousi confirmed on Monday (May 4, 2026) that the parliament will receive the government program from Ali al-Zaidi, who is tasked with forming the new government, by the end of this week, while he indicated that the names of the ministerial cabinet will be put to a vote next week.”
5-7-2026 Intel Guru Bruce [via WiserNow] we have information that we’re getting from the highest up sources you can get in the banking world that was saying we should get our notifications for tier 4b over the weekend.
