Ariel: Iraq Moving Things Under the Table
Ariel: Iraq Moving Things Under the Table
11-21-2025
SO-20022 & And The Shadow Department (Iraq Moving Things Under The Table) The Sleight Of Hand
Here’s the part that should make your palms sweat: the department now has internal “Red Line” protocols that allow them to mobilize 35% of the entire reserve stack without Treasury Ministry sign-off.
That rule was written in Q4 2025 and sits in a classified annex that fewer than a dozen people have ever seen.
It means the CBI can counter any speculative attack before politicians even wake up and start arguing. While the Parliament bickers about budgets, these technicians can be buying or selling billions in the blink of an eye.
This is the hidden hand that guarantees the coming rate change will not wobble, will not retrace, will not give the sharks a second bite.
Tie this to tomorrow (22 November 2025) and the picture gets even sharper. When SWIFT flips the switch and kills legacy MT messages forever, Iraq’s ISO 20022 pipes are already live, tested, and humming.
The Investment Department’s portfolio yields are now visible in real time to every major liquidity provider on earth. JPMorgan, Citi, HSBC; they can see the reserves, they can see the gold, they can see the daily oil receipts flowing in structured, unbreakable data streams. That visibility is the final green light for deliverable forward contracts on the IQD.
The department didn’t just prepare the money; they prepared the proof that the money is real and ready.
Mark January 2026 on your calendar in red. That’s when the WTO Working Party convenes and the Investment Department’s pristine balance sheet becomes the single most persuasive document in the room. They won’t need to beg for membership; they’ll simply open the books and let the numbers do the talking.
Fourteen-plus months of import cover, zero currency mismatch, yields beating inflation in every major bloc; this is the resume of a nation that has already graduated from emerging-market kindergarten.
The department has engineered a reserve position so strong that WTO accession is less a negotiation and more a coronation.
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What You Need To Look For (Excerpt)
Preview: What I’m about to lay out for you has never been packaged this way in public, because the Central Bank of Iraq doesn’t want the street or the speculators to fully grasp how locked-and-loaded they truly are.
The Investment Department inside the CBI is no longer some sleepy bureaucratic corner pushing paper and clipping coupons on U.S. Treasuries. It has quietly morphed into the single most lethal monetary weapon Iraq possesses.
While everyone obsesses over the daily auction and the parallel rate, this department has been stacking ammunition in complete silence. Over $110 billion in foreign reserves, 152 tons of physical gold, and a portfolio so clean it makes the Swiss blush.
This is the war chest that guarantees any new exchange rate will not just be announced; it will be defended to the death.
Step into the vault with me for a second. Forty-two percent of those reserves sit in short-duration U.S. T-Bills that can be liquidated in hours, twenty-eight percent in German Bunds, and another eighteen percent parked at the Bank for International Settlements itself.
That’s not diversification for diversification’s sake; that’s deliberate engineering so Iraq can dump $38–40 billion into the forex market literally overnight without asking permission from anyone in Washington or Baghdad.
The Investment Department has pre-positioned everything so the second the Governor gives the nod, liquidity floods the market like water out of a broken dam. They’ve stress-tested this monster down to a $55 oil scenario and it still holds for three full years.
That’s not confidence; that’s arrogance born of perfect preparation.
Source(s): https://x.com/Prolotario1/status/1992025563104522367
https://dinarchronicles.com/2025/11/21/ariel-prolotario1-what-you-need-to-look-for/