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Reset Intelligence: 23 Years in Baghdad
7-21-2026
23 Years in Baghdad
By Reset Intelligence | @EXIT_FIAT
On Saturday the Central Bank of Iraq and the US Treasury reached an understanding. 7 Iraqi banks that had been shut out of the world’s payment system were let back toward it.
The headline that ran everywhere said they were cleared for dollar transactions. They were not. The Arabic in the statement excludes the dollar by name.
The moves on the record
• 7 banks readmitted – to external correspondent channels in currencies other than the dollar. Dollar eligibility is a second phase, conditional on finishing the central bank’s re-licensing programme. No date was attached by anyone.
• 48 agreements – signed during the Washington visit, announced Saturday. The Iraqi prime minister’s office counted 48. The summit host counted more than 50. Initial value above $60 billion.
• A JPMorgan branch – the prime minister’s office announced an agreement to open one in Iraq, to finance American company projects.
• 9 ministries – still have nobody sitting in them. Parliament has not voted on them since the recess ended on 1 July.
• FATF – Iraq remains on the list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, added 19 June. Nothing about that can change before the October plenary.
That is the short version, and it is the version everyone has.
The part nobody connected
On 14 July 2003 the Coalition Provisional Authority signed Order Number 20 and created the Trade Bank of Iraq. That August, JPMorgan Chase won the contract to run it, beating consortia led by Citigroup, Bank of America, Wachovia and Bank One. No source we can find states the arrangement ever ended.
The bank being reported as arriving in Iraq has been clearing Iraqi trade paper for 23 years.
Today’s briefing walks the whole thing. What Order Number 20 actually says in plain text. Why the fee was never the point. The 2 earlier occasions the same house did the same thing when a state’s money stopped working. And what all of it means for the rate.
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If you want the background, Head of the Snake maps the route the money took, and the code 25XOFF is still running. The free resources library carries the guides and the scenario reports.
Nobody announces the room they never left.
https://dinarchronicles.com/2026/07/20/reset-intelligence-23-years-in-baghdad/
Courtesy of Dinar Guru: https://www.dinarguru.com/
Jeff An audit on the budget periods from 2012- to 2025...They've never done an audit of this level before in the history of this investment...They're going to review this audit at today's session of parliament. Very significant towards your investment...What they're reviewing in today's session of parliament is very significant towards them going international...This is something they would do only if they're really preparing to adjust their currency's value.
Stephen This past week one of the largest and most important meetings was with al-Zaidi and the US Treasury. He met directly with Scott Bessent who runs the US Treasury. They're directly responsible for facilitating and helping Iraq revalue or reinstate the Iraqi dinar...When you see articles talking about the partnership between the Central Bank of Iraq, the US Treasury and how it's directly expected to strengthen the stability of the Iraqi dinar, I don't understand how people don't see this...Even if you didn't have dinar goggles on...or...not invested at all...if you can't look at the news...and ask yourself...a country attracting this much investment from the US directly, billions and trillions of dollars worth of deals, are they able to do this with a currency worth 1/10 of a penny?
Frank26 [Iraq boots-on-the-ground report] OMAR: Television says our dinar [market rate] has gained 3.66% in just 17 days...that isn't normal. It's really really looking good. It's growing fast. FRANK: it's so exciting to see the evidence of your currency gaining value as the American dollar is being used less and less inside of Iraq. The gap is closing. The black market is going away so you can reach the 1 to 1. I've been waiting for this evidence to start. It looks like it started way before July 10th...It is moving at an incredible speed.
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