For years, Iraq’s central bank sold dollars at the official rate to anyone who could show paperwork for imported goods. Much of that paperwork was fake…The cheap official dollars flowed straight…to Tehran and the militias it funds. One Baghdad bank alone is accused of pulling 6.5 billion dollars out of the auction on fraudulent paper. That fraud… was a supply line, and Iran stood at the end of it, fed dollars the United States itself had wired into Iraq’s account. This morning it changed. Iraq switched on ASYCUDA, a customs system…so the fake paper stops clearing. The central bank also cut the cash dollars a traveler can carry from 3,000 to 2,000 a month, closing the retail leak alongside it. :Reset Intelligence
