11-14-2026 Newshound Guru Stephen Look at all the progress Iraq is making. Right now they have a clear fire lit under their butt in order to get things done. They no longer have the luxury of kicking the can down the road. They have a great Prime minister. He is in close communication with Trump. We have the US special envoy there, Thomas Barack who is overseeing these talks and negotiations between Kurdistan and Baghdad. We have a lot of positive things going on right now.Could not load reactions: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
11-14-2026 Newshound Guru Thom The cabinet budget meeting…got postponed again, per The New Region. Third time. No new date yet. I’m not frustrated. Every delay tells you the Kurdistan piece still isn’t settled.Could not load reactions: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
11-14-2026 Newshound Guru Clare Article quote: “An extraordinary meeting, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 14, to vote on the draft has been delayed to an unspecified date.“Could not load reactions: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
11-14-2026 Newshound Guru Samson Article: “THE CLOSURE OF THE ‘MANDALI-SUMAR’ BORDER CROSSING WITH IRAN HAS OFFICIALLY COME INTO EFFECT“Could not load reactions: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
11-14-2026 Newshound/Intel Guru Mnt Goat Article: “BANKS ASSOCIATION: THE CENTRAL BANK’S RESERVES ARE LARGE AND SOUND, AND WE ARE MOVING TOWARDS EXCHANGE RATE STABILITY” Quote: “…the reserves of the Central Bank of Iraq are solid and large, and it is able to meet the demand in the market, which strengthens the trend towards the stability of the exchange rate.”Could not load reactions: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
11-14-2026 Intel Guru Bruce [via WiserNow] …the information that we had…was very strong for… through the weekend. Then…I got an update to that, which moved everything to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, so we got pushed…the most encouragement that we had on the dates came from two very high up sources in the lead bank, and the indication was they thought that we would get notified…on Monday or Tuesday of this coming week…and we would be exchanging, in their opinion, most likely Tuesday and Wednesday…I think it’s quite possible. Maybe even over this weekend, Saturday or Sunday.
