Iraqi News Thursday AM 1-21-21
Iraqi News Thursday AM 1-21-21
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A Parliamentary Statement Proposes A New And Only Option To Reduce The Dollar Exchange Rate Before Approving The Budget
14,054 Economy 01/18/2021 21:17 Baghdad Today - Follow-up Representative Ahmed Hama Rashid - a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed a single option before Parliament to change the exchange rate of the dollar against the dinar and reduce it in response to popular demands
Rashid said in a televised interview that (Baghdad Today) followed that "until now there is no final and definitive agreement to keep the deductions made by the government on employees' salaries in the budget or delete them."
He added, "In the event that the deductions are removed, parliament must work to find a financial alternative to compensation to prevent the increase in the deficit."
While affirming that "no change will occur to the exchange rate fixed in the budget because it is outside the authority of the parliament and exclusively from the monetary authority," he pointed out that
"there is only way to change it by meeting with the Ministry of Finance and proposing ideas to reduce the exchange rate because it is the decision maker in this regard, not Parliament, and this is." One of the proposals, but frankly, we believe that the exchange rate is irreversible. " LINK
Al-Shamaa: The old exchange rate creates big problems and loses confidence in the Iraqi currency
On January 19, 2021 The Independent / - Economist Hammam Al-Shamaa emphasized that returning to the old exchange rate ... loses confidence in the currency and creates big problems.
Al-Shamaa said in a press statement followed by Al-Independent today, Tuesday, that in Iraq there is chaos and in light of the state, everything is possible, except that returning to the old price creates big problems and the Iraqi currency loses confidence in it.
Al-Shamaa added that: Some of these problems are the financial losses that resulted from the reduction of the exchange rate for everyone who had savings hoarded in the dinar, as it lost 20% of its value.
He explained: Debt relations will also result in losses.
The trader who was in debt in dollars was forced to pay a larger amount of dinars when the exchange rate was reduced, and conversely, the debtor now in dinars will have to bear a larger amount of dollars to pay off his debt. LINK
Dollar Exchange Rates In The Iraqi Market For Today
Economie| 10:16 - 01/21/2021 Baghdad - Mawazine News Dollar prices against the Iraqi dinar, gold and oil, according to the Iraqi Political Economic Center, on Thursday (January 21, 2021). The selling price of the dollar 146,000 The purchase price of the dollar 145,000 The global price of an ounce of gold $ 1874.05 The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil $ 56.00 The price of a barrel of US crude oil $ 53.20
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In Numbers ... Weekly Trading Indicators For The Iraq Stock Exchange
Economie| 02:06 - 01/21/2021 BAGHDAD - News balance systems of the Iraqi market for securities, during the third week of January 2021 five trading sessions on Sunday , a brief summary on Thursday 17/01/2021 to 21/01/2021 a brief summary, check this week indicators below:
1. reached The number of shares traded during this week more than (10) billion shares.
2. The value of shares traded this week amounted to more than (5) billion dinars.
3. The trading index closed in the market for the first session of the week at (490.76) points, while the index closed at the end of the week at (491.57) points, achieving an increase of (0.16%) from its close in the first session.
4. During the week, more than (2000) sale and purchase contracts were executed on the shares of companies listed on the market. 29 / A43 https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=138739
America: The Suicide Attack In Baghdad Is A Cowardly Act And Underlines The Threat Of Terrorism To Iraqis
Time: 01/21/2021 15:16:19 Read: 1,950 times (Baghdad: Al Furat News) The United States condemned UNAMI in Iraq, on Thursday, the bombings that took place in Tayaran Square, while confirming that the suicide attack in Baghdad is a cowardly act and affirms the threat of terrorism on Iraqis.
"The United States strongly condemns the suicide attack that took place in Tayaran Square in Baghdad today, which resulted in the loss of lives and injuries to dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians," the mission stated in a statement received by the Euphrates News.
She added, "This attack is a cowardly and disgraceful act that confirms the dangers of terrorism that millions of Iraqis still face." "We offer our condolences to the families of the victims, and we hope for a speedy recovery for the wounded," the mission confirmed. LINK
Al-Sistani's Office Issued A Statement Regarding The Tayaran Square Bombings
Political| 06:17 - 01/21/2021 Baghdad - Mawazine News
The Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Ali al-Sistani, issued, on Thursday, a statement regarding the bombings of Tayaran Square in central Baghdad.
In a statement received by Mawazine News, the office stated, "Once again, the brutal terrorists targeted a gathering of innocent civilians with a double bombing in Tayaran Square in dear Baghdad, which led to the fall of dozens of martyrs and many times that of the wounded and injured, in a terrible scene that hurts everyone of conscience." Neighborhood".
He added, "As we extend our deepest condolences and sincere condolences to the families of the honorable martyrs, and beseech God Almighty to grant the wounded a speedy recovery, we call on the competent security agencies to intensify their efforts and exert more efforts in order to preserve security and thwart the plans of the enemies that lie in wait for this oppressed people." He suffers from various aspects, and there is no strength or power except in God Almighty. "Ended 29 / h https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=138784
Al-Kazemi Issues The First Decision After The Bombings
Political| 04:41 - 01/21/2021 Baghdad - Mawazine News The Prime Minister ordered the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, to make changes in the joints of the responsible security forces after the terrorist bombing in Tayaran Square
A government source said, according to the official agency, that "the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, ordered changes to be made in the joints of the security and intelligence services responsible after the terrorist bombings, which resulted in the killing of 32 civilians and wounding 110 others."
He pointed out, "the importance of making changes away from pressures and influences in security work and rejecting any interference at all."
The Prime Minister, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, had chaired an emergency meeting at the Baghdad Operations Command headquarters https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=138770
The Road To Political Change In Iraq
Monday January 18, 2021 54 Ibrahim Al-Abadi Three trends are expected to be headlines in the upcoming political and electoral struggle: the first trend is post-Islamism, the second trend is populism, and the third is Iraqi patriotism.
While the pace accelerates towards making the upcoming elections a decisive political articulation, forces seek to re-establish power in Iraq anew by renewing the faces of political actors, counter forces feel that they are being targeted, and they must defend their presence, by waging an electoral battle with full caliber and weapons, and the first of these weapons will be the media and its speeches
Because the media, by its nature, seeks to construct and frame public opinion trends, the central issues that the parties to the election race will focus on will reflect the mentality of the currents, their ideologies, and their approaches to these issues, with an emphasis on the elements of emotional and emotional tension.
The Iraqi society is rife with great political movements, and the protests have fueled many questions that were not only questioning the authorities, but rather an internal internal debate, some of which remained suppressed and some of it appeared to the public about the feasibility of large speeches and larger narratives, if the forces and elites to which they belong were not able to accommodate the aspirations of the people.
In the context of these questions, the political struggle emerges under the umbrella of three currents with their post-Islamist, populist and patriotic tendencies, and it is these currents that will run in the elections, but with their old and new names, so the competitors will enter an existential struggle to confirm their presence in the power structure and represent part of the street.
Which was greatly disturbed by political shocks, economic crises and conflict of regional and international axes, in addition to the failure of the forces that seized power in running the state at a level of acceptability and rationality that qualifies it to continue.
Post-Islamism is represented by the reproduction of the (Iraqi Islamic Project) with its various sectarian and partisan colors to match the violent criticism that (Islamists) were subjected to in their pursuit of the Islamization of life according to their ideological perspectives, as Islamism and its program are no longer able to meet the requirements of the daily life of the public, the slogan has exhausted its energy
And the project is its ability to persuade, and the slogan of Islam is no longer a sufficient solution to approach the crises and problems of the state and society, and the proponents of the project did not embody sufficient skills and capabilities to maintain the enthusiasm and employ efforts to perpetuate the momentum (the battle of Islamism) as they imagined it.
In general, the forces of political Islam suffered tremendous suffering in proving authoritarian merit and innovative solutions to successive crises, and convincing the public became a tremendous challenge that required re-examination of tools and methods and the formation of new elites with new concepts and visions in light of the internal and external criticism to which the experiences of Islamists in general were exposed, hence the talk about ( Post-Islamism) to be an expression of a new thought and a new stage!
In it, religiosity and the call to the Islamic project become very distinct from the past and the present, distinctions dictated by the stage of uprising, criticism and rejection, and this tendency (I personally) assume that it will be present in the elections in multiple formats, in addition to the populist forces that will fill the political space with their methods of flattening awareness and falsifying intellectual debates Crossing over major issues blaming others, persistent hate speech, stereotyping enemies, blaming the other on responsibility, and self-integrity.
As for issues of failure, corruption, contempt for the state, its competition, and the floating of its authorities and institutions, they are left without an answer because the unspoken hidden, and because the hour of reform has not struck the minds and voices of this project.
Iraqi patriotism is looking for a space in these elections as well, for it is a nascent trend, but it is strong with its arguments and its assimilation of the experience of past years.
It is a current that does not want to transform the battle of building the state into a struggle of Islamists and secularists, nor a struggle of nationalists and internationalists, or the struggle of local forces against external forces.
Ideological struggles, revolutionary dreams, utopian projects, a hundred years of the life of the state, and now the time has come (to put) the harvest of bitter experiences into practice for me.
The fact that the focus on building Iraq and the Iraqi state without ideological conflict and utopian dreams is a dangerous bet on a consciousness that has not yet completed its construction.
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