Iraqi News Highlights Late Friday Night 1-10-20
Iraqi News Highlights Late Friday Night 1-10-20
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Chattels US announces new sanctions on Iran after missile strikes
https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/100120201
chattels Mnuchin said President Donald Trump will issue an executive order imposing sanctions on anyone involved in the Iranian textile, construction, manufacturing or mining sectors. They will also impose separate sanctions against the steel and iron sectors.
chattels “As a result of these actions we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian regime,” the treasury secretary said.
chattels Washington rejects Baghdad’s request to plan US troop withdrawal
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/100120202
chattels ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The US State Department released a statement on Friday bluntly refusing requests from the Iraqi Parliament and Prime Minister to withdraw troops from the country. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus stated that delegations from Washington to Baghdad would not discuss troop withdrawal with Iraqi officials.
chattels Trump has warned that he will impose sanctions on Iraq if they insist on the withdrawal of US forces from the country. Iraq also relies on Iran sanctions waivers from the US in order to import Iranian gas needed to supply electricity. The current waiver is due to expire in February, at which point they will have to ask the US government to renew it in order to avoid financial penalties.
chattels Whachu gonna do now " Batman " ?
chattels Can Kurdistan avoid becoming entangled in US-Iran tensions in Iraq?
Paul Iddon https://www.rudaw.net/english/analysis/10012020
chattels Salih believes that Tehran "will certainly pressure" Erbil to remove US troops. However, due to the clear and present danger of an ISIS resurgence, "there is little appetite on the part of the US or the Kurdistan Region for the US military to leave Iraq."
He also pointed out that "Iran does not have the capabilities to handle a resurgent ISIS."
Consequently, Kurdistan's security might be adversely affected if the US withdraws all its military forces from Iraq and Kurdistan.
chattels Two Iraqi journalists Ahmad Abdul-Samad and Safa Ghali were killed tonight in #Iraq’s southern city of Basra during their coverage of anti-corruption protests. https://twitter.com/JoelWing2
chattels Parliament holds a session tomorrow to vote on bills http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=85965
chattels Parliament holds a session tomorrow to vote on bills
[Baghdad-Ain] Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will hold its regular session to vote on several draft laws.
A representative source said in a press statement that "the session No. 27 will be held at exactly one o'clock in the afternoon from tomorrow, Saturday, explaining that, according to the session's agenda, a vote will be taken on the proposal to amend the Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019, and also vote on a draft law to join Iraq To the International Land Transport Agreement of 1975 ".
He added: The session will also witness the second reading of the proposal to amend the Iraqi Commission for Accreditation Law No. 78 of 2017, and to complete the vote on the health insurance law proposal.
chattels Iyad Allawi resigns from the House of Representatives
Editing Date: 10/21/2020 20:10 • http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=85974
chattels The decline in the exchange rate of the dollar in Baghdad today
[Follow-up] Where, on Friday, foreign currency markets in Baghdad recorded a decrease in the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar.
The market price today reached 1200 dinars per dollar, or 120 thousand dinars per hundred dollars.
As for the selling and buying prices of the dollar in banking companies, they were as follows:
The selling price of one dollar is 1220 dinars, or 120 thousand and 200 dinars per hundred dollars.
The purchase price of the dollar is 1210 dinars, or 121 thousand and 100 dinars per hundred dollars.
chattels With all eyes on Iraq, it would be a mistake to lose sight of the consequences of how the US killing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani on Jan. 3 is playing out in Israel and Gaza.
chattels Baghdad / Nina / The leader of the National Coalition, Dr. Iyad Allawi, announced his resignation from the membership of the House of Representatives as a result of what he called the parliament’s failure to fulfill its legislative and oversight role and not dealing seriously and positively with the demands of the popular and mass movement. https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=806997
chattels Likely an effort to make himself more appealing to the masses, IMO.
chattels Baghdad / Nina / The dollar exchange rates on the Kifah Stock Exchange and local markets fell on Friday. The prices of the Kifah Stock Exchange recorded 121.850 thousand dinars per hundred dollars.