2-24-2026 Newshound Guru Clare Article: “Trump’s pressure goes public… Maliki’s fate to be decided Friday night” Quote: “the framework obtained a new extension of the American deadline for withdrawing al-Maliki’s nomination, and the deadline will end next Friday. This was discussed during the meeting, and al-Maliki informed them that he does not intend to withdraw his nomination at all. He told them that the two-thirds who nominated al-Maliki should withdraw his nomination, and he does not object to that.”
2-24-2026 Newshound Guru Pimpy Just because you have a bunch of oil doesn’t mean you automatically got a very valuable currency. There’s other things that take part in making the decision on the value of the dinar. You have to have a stable government, which they don’t. You have to have stability amongst the people, which they do for the most part…It’s not 100% stable but there’s a lot of stability there. Unemployment is going down, inflation is way down. These are the types of things that are taken in consideration when they decide what the exchange rate is going to be for the Iraqi dinar. Right now we see there’s an issue, where? In their politics. That’s always been their main issue.
2-24-2026 Newshound Guru Kaperoni Article: “Central Bank: Currency in circulation exceeds 93 trillion dinars during October 2025”
2-24-2026 Newshound/Intel Guru Fnu Lnu Article Quote: “Transparency International has said that Iraq has improved its ranking and score in the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2025. From a total of 182 countries, Iraq came in at number 136, up 4 places on the previous year…This result puts it on equal ranking with Pakistan, Mali and Bolivia.” Iraq is still low man in this ranking…It is NO great accomplishment to be on equal footing with Bolivia and Pakistan…
2-24-2026 Newshound Guru Jeff Question: “I thought Trump gave them until Friday to form a government?” They said that but remember he gave them a deadline of this past weekend to also form the government and that deadline came and went, but then they come out today with a second deadline saying, ‘Oh, we’re only going to give you till this Friday.’ So was it last weekend or is it this next upcoming Friday? …They’re all over the board. I don’t recommend you take that information as gospel, solid, concrete information. Take everything they say with a grain of salt. Their news is scripted. It’s all over the board.
2-24-2026 Intel/Newshound Guru MarkZ [via PDK] Question: If HCL is approved this week…will the RV immediately or wait a couple weeks or months? MarkZ: I would say just days after the HCL is approved.
2-24-2026 Newshound/Intel Guru Mnt Goat When the dinar goes back to FOREX it will be re-pegged and off the sole peg to the dollar and the program rate will go away. The newer lower denominations would have to first be rolled out. We are talking apples and oranges when we talk about these two rate types…The dinar can only have one ‘official’ rate. There is no such thing as an in-country rate and then a FOREX rate at the same time…When the dinar does go back to FOREX, the in-country rate (program rate) will change to the FOREX rate. [Post 2 of 2]
2-24-2026 Newshound/Intel Guru Mnt Goat …my CBI contact…said we would hear all kinds of comments about the independence of the CBI and how they can adjust the rate anytime they want. Yes this may be true but…Some don’t even realize there are two types of rates, one is the program rate and the other the FOREX rate…the ‘program’ rate tied to the de facto peg can be changed upwards or downwards by the CBI any time. This does not mean allowing the dinar back on FOREX… [Post 1 of 2….stay tuned]
