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activities of the Iraqi National Trade and Investment Forum (INTF2026).” It said these initiatives aim to consolidate relations between Iraqi and European business communities, open broader prospects for trade and investment cooperation, and develop partnerships between companies on both sides.

Iraq, EU Discuss MoU and Joint Business Baghdad – INA Subscribe to our Telegram channel to receive more news The President of the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce, Amer Al-Fahdawi, discussed today, Sunday, with the European Union Ambassador to Iraq, Clemens Semtner, the memorandum of understanding and the Iraqi-European Business Forum, while the two sides explored ways to strengthen trade and economic cooperation with the participation of Iraqi institutions. The Federation of Chambers said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that, “as part of efforts to strengthen the trade and economic partnership between Iraq and Europe, an expanded meeting was held at the headquarters of the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce in Baghdad, bringing together a number of officials and representatives of Iraqi economic and government institutions, alongside the European Union Mission in Iraq, to discuss prospects for enhancing economic and trade cooperation between the two sides.” It added that the meeting was attended by President of the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce Amer Al-Fahdawi; EU Ambassador to Iraq Clemens Semtner; EU Projects Department Director Wim Rimba; Director General of the Private Sector Development Department at the Ministry of Commerce Malek Al-Duraie; Director General of the Single Window Department Zuhair Shaker Ali; Tharwat Akram, Deputy Director General of the Foreign Economic Relations Department at the Ministry of Commerce; Mohammed Nouri, Deputy Director General of the Economic Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mohammed Al-Sharifi, Investment Affairs Officer at the Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mohsen Al-Hamid, President of the International Chamber of Commerce in Iraq; Hosna Hadi, Director of the International Cooperation Department at the National Investment Authority; Ahmed Al-Yasiri, Advisor for International Organizations Affairs at the Federation of Chambers of Commerce; Anmar Iyad, Director of the Iraqi International Organizations Department at the Federation, in addition to a number of officials and program directors from the EU Mission. The Federation said that “the primary objective of the meeting is to strengthen the trade and economic partnership between private-sector and government institutions and develop joint cooperation with the European Union and international institutions and organizations.” It explained that the meeting also sought to accelerate commercial activity in Iraq and highlight investment projects to attract foreign investment, as part of efforts to support the Iraqi government’s objectives of sustaining the Development Road project and identifying the best ways to connect Iraqi trade with Europe and the wider world. The Federation noted that the discussions covered several key areas, including the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Iraq and the European Union, the National Investment Map, the Jobs Project for private-sector development, and Iraq’s accession process to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in cooperation with the International Trade Centre (ITC), in addition to commercial arbitration, business integrity and corporate social responsibility, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It further stated that a number of future projects and initiatives were proposed in the fields of the digital economy, sustainable and smart cities, digital transformation, and private-sector capacity-building programs, particularly for companies and entrepreneurs. These initiatives are expected to broaden the scope of Iraqi-European cooperation and support Iraq’s move toward a more competitive and sustainable economy. The Federation added that “the meeting discussed activating the memorandum of understanding signed between the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce and the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES), as well as enhancing effective European participation in the Iraqi-European Business Forum, which will be held as part of the

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PM Ali al-Zaidi Is Not Planning To Go Through Parliament: He Doesn't Have To And Here Is Why Article 80 of the Iraqi Constitution grants the Council of Ministers authority to issue administrative regulations and execute policy decisions in coordination with the Central Bank of Iraq without a parliamentary vote specifically in matters of monetary sovereignty and financial system management. 3 Things To Note 1. CBI Board approval Already secured (unanimous, August 11 closed session). 2. Council of Ministers sign-off Already secured (August 13 emergency session, no dissent). 3. Finance Committee notification (not approval) Delivered August 14, 18 hours before Sand's announcement. Parliament can object. Parliament can scream. Parliament cannot stop this. The legal framework was built specifically to prevent parliamentary obstruction of monetary reform because every previous attempt at zero removal was killed by MP factional infighting between 2020 and 2024. Ali al-Zaidi studied those failures. He engineered around them. That statement was coordinated, not with Baghdad press, but with Treasury's Office of International Affairs via a backchannel that runs through Amman. The phrase "decision to change the currency" is deliberate. It's not a proposal. It's not under consideration. The word used in the Arabic original — qarar — means a decision already issued. Already made. Already signed. What Sand did not say matters more. He did not say "parliamentary approval required." He did not say "pending legislation." He said "ready." That word came from the Central Bank of Iraq's Currency Reform Committee, which has been operational since March but never publicly named. ~Parliament was going to stall past October. Now they react in days, not weeks. Let them file procedural complaints. The CBI controls the ledger, and the ledger is already migrated. Ariel

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Let Me Clear This One Line Item Up: "The List" What It Actually Is There is no single master list of dinar holders sitting in a vault somewhere. What exists is far more mundane and far more effective. When you purchase foreign currency through a registered dealer Currency Exchange International, TD Bank's foreign currency desk, whatever that transaction generates a SAR-CTR paper trail under FinCEN requirements for transactions exceeding $10,000. The dealer logs your name, the currency type, the amount, and your identification. That record lives in the dealer's compliance system and feeds into FinCEN's database. Nothing Special. Nothing Exclusive. Nothing To Ponder About So yes, in a functional sense, if you bought through legitimate channels, you are "on a list." But that list is just transaction records. It is not a watchlist. It is not a targeting list. It is the same boring compliance infrastructure that tracks anyone buying $10,000 worth of Canadian dollars or euros. Where "The List" Actually Matters Where Forum Lore Gets It Half-Right Is This: When the RV hits and people start walking into banks to exchange, the bank's compliance department runs your transaction through several layers. • Provenance Check: Where did you get the currency? If you bought through a registered dealer and have your receipt, the bank sees a clean acquisition trail. Date, amount, price paid, dealer name. Simple. The exchange processes through their foreign currency settlement system. • AML Flagging: If you walk in with 10 million IQD in physical notes and no receipts, no dealer records, no paper trail the bank files a Suspicious Activity Report automatically. Not because you're a criminal. Because federal regulations require it for large currency transactions lacking clear provenance. The SAR goes to FinCEN. It sits in their database. If nothing else about you triggers flags, it probably just sits there forever and nothing happens. • The bank asks how you acquired the currency. Not because they're trying to confiscate it because their compliance officer's job depends on documenting the answer. "I bought it from a dealer online in 2014, here's the receipt" closes the inquiry. "I bought it from a guy" opens one. Understand? So there you have it. In plain English. If you do not have your "paper receipt" but your bank can provide a transaction history then you should be good to go if you used your local bank. I think the same can be said for vendors. Electronic receipts count just as much as paper does. If someone gifted you the currency you need to go ask them for the receipt. Ariel

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