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One day after the US and Iran put their names to a deal, Washington flies its closer into Baghdad.  Special Presidential Envoy Tom Barrack walks the oil, the cabinet, and […]

Two redemption paths: domestic CBI and international Tier 1…Iraqi citizens and international holders sit on two different paths… Iraqi citizens and residents convert through the Central Bank of Iraq window and the […]

Trump declares the Iran war complete. The blockade lifts. Baghdad secures Kurdistan’s oil fields. Both routes reconnect. The rate waits inside the budget. :Reset Intelligence 

Here is what is important to understand.  This is a once-in-a-lifetime, generational opportunity. The windfall itself is the easy part. (Besides the waiting part). The hard part is what you do […]

Iraq spent the closed [Strait of Hormuz] months doing the un-glamorous work, plugging it’s banks back into the world through London, putting every border dinar on  auditable lager, pulling weapons […]

Iraq is licensing banks with no branches, no vaults, no paper. The launch standard: zero  downtime, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Nobody writes that spec for a currency worth […]

No one is going to address the nation, hand you the headline and tell you to get your affairs in order.  That time is now… You get to watch it […]

Trump says the war with Iran is over. The blockade lifts on one signature. Before the war, Iraq moved 93 million barrels a month through Hormuz.  April’s count: 10 million. The oil money […]

Trump declares the war with Iran over. Oil drops below $87. Iraq’s tankers are already loading. Tehran says no text is approved. One signature decides the week.:Reset Intelligence 

January 2020 – The Iraqi parliament had just voted to expel US forces…A reporter asked President Trump how the United States planned to recover its costs if it left. The […]

The precedent is March 1933, when Roosevelt shut every bank in America, culled the ones that could not survive examination, and within a year repriced gold from $20.67 to $35 […]

Iraq’s central bank is licensing a kind of bank the country has never had: no branches, no vaults, no paper…Nobody writes that spec for a currency they plan to leave […]

A country holding $97 billion in reserves could carry a far stronger rate and Iraq does not.  That is not the market and it is not an accident…The dinar’s number […]

A currency locked out of world banking moves on paperwork before it moves on price.  Correspondent banks give the dinar reach. Exports give it income. Clean books give it credibility. […]

The corruption layers are being removed to make way for the new system, both abroad and in the US…You are being handed this gift while it is still playing out. […]

Everyone wants to know when the IQD revalues. Almost no one is watching the thing that actually decides it.  The layers of corruption, not just in Iraq but across the […]

There is no economic case for the dinar at 1,300.  You do not harden a currency at the printing press. You harden it in the vault, and that is where this […]

The men who really ran Baghdad had no use for a stronger dinar because the cheap one was their living.  Their skim is the gap between the official rate and […]

The pressure you are seeing is external and engineered, the kind that breaks an old arrangement so a new one can take its place.  Iraq is being walked into an […]

Look at who just told the world he is getting on a plane.  Al-Zaidi, prime minister of a country that cannot make payroll, its oil chocked off, and its central bank […]

Iraq…dollars still clear through a New York account Washington can throttle, its banks still fight for the correspondent lines that connect them to the world, and its central bank still works […]

This week every major armed faction in Iraq agreed to hand its weapons to the state, and Lebanon signed the identical deal on Hezbollah. One order, two capitals. An exception that […]

Reform in Iraq used to be measured in years, which delivered zilch.  Al-Zaidi has done more in 19 days than his predecessors managed in a decade.  And all of it is leading […]

Everyone is disarming in Iraq this week, and almost no one is asking why now. The answer: you cannot route Iraq’s oil money onto clean rails while the militias are […]

The first American Airlines commercial flight from Miami to Caracas [Venezuela] in 7 years landed…The bolivar is back on official trading rails after a year off international markets. US crude […]

The same week al-Zaidi started cleaning Iraq’s books, the IMF sat back down with Venezuela for the first time since 2019, to begin returning billions in frozen reserves.  One system, […]

The bribe was never the story. What al-Zaidi did with it was.  He turned down $200m to look the other way, put the bribe on live television, arrested the man who […]

Letting Iran-backed factions hold Interior or Defense is the one line Washington has drawn and the prize Tehran still wants, so the cabinet was left half-built to avoid answering it. […]