News, Rumors and Opinions Monday 8-10-2026
Ross: All of this is Necessary Before the Revaluation of IQD
8-10-2026
Al-Zaidi is using the provincial coordination body to push land reform, electricity restructuring, fiscal caution, and service delivery while the regional environment is putting pressure on the budget.
All of this is necessary before the revaluation of IQD:
1. Executive procedures for the 1 million residential land plots project start 1 September 2026.
This is real volume. Land reform + mass housing release = construction stimulus, local economic activity, and a tangible delivery item the government can point to.
2. New committee (chaired by the Head of Advisors) tasked with amending the technical model for privatizing electricity distribution.
Chronic electricity losses, collection failures, and political interference have been a drag for years.
3. Private generators crackdown (Baghdad focus)
Oil Ministry can no longer issue fuel quotas for private generators without going through Baghdad Governorate.
This hits the parallel/fuel-diversion economy that has been a long-standing leakage and corruption vector.
4. Agriculture – Diwaniyah rice (shaleb) support
Increased water releases from Abbasiya and Kufa barrages, adjusted Ya’u regulator, 8 hours of dedicated power for pumps on the river axis, no exceptions from the irrigation rotation, and excavators for cleaning. Practical food-security / rural support move.
Al-Zaidi continues to operate as an active executive rather than a caretaker.
The meeting had real ministers and real governors in the room — producing dated action items trying to look competent on housing, power, agriculture, and money discipline while regional conditions are tight.
Source(s):
• https://x.com/Ross_ptm/status/2086508226863136992
https://dinarchronicles.com/2026/08/10/ross-all-of-this-is-necessary-before-the-revaluation-of-iqd/
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Stephen Sometimes people look at everything happening inside of Iraq through the lens of a revaluation tomorrow. That's not the case. However, we're seeing economic reform, monetary reform, banking restructuring, financial restructuring. We are seeing so many exciting things that are all culminating and coming together, fingers crossed, for that glorious day where we can all exchange our Iraqi dinar into US dollars...In my last 15 years since I have been invested in the Iraqi dinar I have not seen this much movement happening. If you have been in this investment a long time you will agree with me. We have never seen Iraq move this quickly. A huge piece of this is the amount of corruption being cleaned up.
Jeff The money sent from the United States to Iraq this week was dollars. We don't pay Iraq's salaries. They don't pay their own salaries in dollars. The $500 million is their oil money from the United States to Iraq. It's to purchase imports and travelers leaving the country can turn in dinar and get dollars to exit the country. The $500 million was not for salaries. Salaries are not paid in dollars.
Bruce [via WiserNow] ...redemption centers might be connected right to a bank, or it could be a completely separate building or location that's not connected to a bank, but everyone in the United States is overseen by Wells Fargo, and they will have a representative there. You'll have a Treasury representative there, and you'll have people that will be there to count and verify your currencies with a De La Rue machine, and then banks have sometimes another brand of machine that they'll be using... and they're getting new machines and training bank personnel on how to do these exchanges.
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