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Information / Special… Jassem al-Bukhati, a member of the Wisdom Movement, said on Saturday that the religious authority's speech on Friday was the last warning to Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's government tocorrect its course and provide services to citizens. Bukhati said in a statement to the information, that the boycott of the religious authority of the current government and politicians is clear evidence of its dissatisfaction with the government work and provide services to citizens, pointing out that "the reference will have a position during the next stage if the government remains on the perspective of quotas and corruption." . He added that "the sermon of the religious authority yesterday is the last warning to the government of Abdul-Mahdi to correct its course and provide services to citizens," noting that "the reference is not satisfied with the work of Abdul-Mahdi and his steps are still tangible in the implementation of the government program." The representative of the Supreme Religious Authority in the city of Karbala, on Friday, a series of questions to the decision-makers in the country, stressing that the focus of these questions that "the citizen feels unfair," wondering, "Is there a horizon to solve our problems and a time limit for them."

America gives the green light to its friends .. Nominated alternative to Abdul - Mahdi Updated 11/08/2019 3:53 PM (Watan News) - Baghdad The United States has given the green light to liquidate them over the nomination of Abdul Mahdi, a political source said Sunday. The source said in an interview with (Watan News) that "the United States of America gave the green light to the political parties in the Iraqi government loyal to nominate new personalities for the post of prime minister instead of Adel Abdul Mahdi." http://wataniq.com/news?ID=44300 https://twitter.com/DavidMWitty1/status/1160573005451472896

2019-07-29 BY SOTALIRAQ Parliamentary Integrity calls for follow-up of the movement of funds of officials and politicians! The Parliamentary Integrity Committee on Monday called on the competent government agencies to monitor the movement of funds of all officials, politicians and their economic committees. "The competent government bodies should follow the movement of the money of all officials, economies and banks belonging to political entities and personalities," said member of the committee Kazem Sayadi. "The economic bodies and the banks of parties and political figures, has become the biggest smuggler of the currency, as well as stealing money and salaries of Iraqis," he said, adding: "Certainly do not mean everyone with regard to banks, although most of them as well," he said. https://www.sotaliraq.com/2019/07/29/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8-%d8%a8%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83/

The IMF has mandated that Iraq must freeze all terrorist funds..... so I would think that law is very pertinent.

Issue No. (4547) of the Iraqi Gazette issued in 2019/7/15 7/17/2019 1 - Decrees of the Republic No. (32), (38), (39), (40) and (41) for the year 2019. 2. Rules of Procedure No. (1) of 2019 for the formations and functions of the Office of the Inspector General in the Ministry of Health and the Environment. 3. Instructions No. (1) for the year 2019 formations of the Iraqi accreditation body and its functions. 4- Regulation No. 1 of 2019 regulating the sale of medicinal herbs. 5 - Decisions issued by the Committee for the freezing of terrorist funds No. (31), (32) and (33) for the year 2019. Those wishing to acquire the Iraqi facts can check the Iraqi facts department located in Salihiya / Haifa Street (Ministry of Justice building) to register for the newspaper and obtain the required number.www.moj.gov.iq/view.4348/

Iraq participates in the United Nations High-Level Ministerial Meeting in New York Political | 07:12 - 16/07/2019 Baghdad - Mawazine News Minister of Planning, Nuri al-Dulaimi, headed the Iraqi delegation to the high-level ministerial meeting of the United Nations in New York. "Dulaimi headed the Iraqi delegation participating in the high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council, which started at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday," the Information Office of the Minister of Planning said in a statement received by Mawazine News. "Iraq will present during its participation the final report of the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development 2019, which was held in Beirut last April under the chairmanship of Iraq represented by the Minister of Planning, where Iraq will link the voice of the Arab region to the high-level political forum." "Iraq will also present its first national voluntary report on sustainable development among 51 countries that will present their voluntary reports," he said. "The report, which will be presented tomorrow, will include the progress made and steps taken by Iraq in the achievement of the 17 sustainable development goals." The Minister of Planning arrived in New York on Monday to head a high-level delegation to participate in the high-level political forum, Annual United Nations which will last several days

Souroun: Abdel-Mahdi is unable to nominate a personality for education. We propose merging the ministry with education Political | 03:44 - 12/07/2019 Baghdad - Mawazine News MP Alaa al-Rubaie said on Friday that the past few days proved the inability of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to nominate an independent figure for the Ministry of Education, while calling for merging the ministry with the Ministry of Higher Education. "The last stage proved that the prime minister is unable to nominate an independent and competent figure capable of managing the Ministry of Education as a result of the political conflict sometimes and sometimes the candidate is not eligible," Rubaie said in a statement received by Mawazine News. He added that "the survival of education without a minister over the past period directly affected the performance of the ministry and this is evident after the announcement of the results of the exams of the third average recently." He pointed out that "the differences and political differences still exist until this moment and there are no positive indicators to resolve this file soon, and there are convictions are mounting on the merger of the Ministry of Education with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research." https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=55082&fbclid=IwAR1GmCH9F6_MbxYYDic2-hiyltec_ZIqvBnX0aUJ926K5_10Ch8GQ6z_Xbg

High Nassif calls for the prosecution of those who exploited the currency auction and looted billions. (Independent) .. demanded the deputy High Nassif, Prime Minister and the judiciary and public prosecution to prosecute the scourge of public money, who exploited the currency auction in previous years and looted billions, indicating that among them the owner of a bank stole six billion dollars. Nassif said: "There are banks used in previous years auction sale of currency in twisted ways to satisfy the greed and achieved a rich rich at the expense of this poor people, to the extent that one of the owners of banks was living in a room in the house of his family in a popular area and suddenly became a billionaire and owns many properties estimated at large amounts "He said. She stressed: "The state should start applying the principle (where you have this) to private banks and follow up the sources of their funds, especially as there are banks provided documents and forged documents." "There are six billion dollars that disappeared overnight," she said, referring to Hoshyar Zebari's comments when he was finance minister. "Is it time for the regulators to recover the stolen people's money and pursue the spoilers?" "He said. "The need for the Prime Minister and all regulatory bodies to prosecute the whales of corruption who are trying today to wear a robe of chastity, believing that the memory of the people pierced. "We will open this file to the prosecution and we will provide all the evidence and information available to us, and we hope that activists and rights and all honorable Iraqis to expose these thieves." You can read the news from the source from here https://www.iraqakhbar.com/1890741?fbclid=IwAR29c8a0ogbFGkf-65Xjbg2tsDNhzhAbLJD9N-0Hhb2FfC3bMzgSlb_wJfg

Parliamentary Finance: Vote for a law obliging the government to submit final accounts 2019/04/20 16:35 BAGHDAD / The obelisk: The Finance Committee of the parliamentary, Saturday, April 20, 2019, the end of the recent amendments to the Financial Management Act and voting on it early May next, indicating that the law obliges the government to submit final accounts for previous years. "The committee has completed all amendments to the Financial Management Law and the first and second readings by the council," said Siham al-Aqili, a member of the committee. "The Presidency of Parliament gave the Committee a deadline to complete all amendments until the end of this month," adding that "the law will be submitted to the vote early May next." She explained that "the law in the event of adoption requires the government to submit all the final accounts of previous years that were not submitted to parliament by previous governments," noting that "one of the paragraphs of the law obliges the government to submit accounts for the coming years in January of each." http://almasalah.com/ar/news/169254/المالية-النيابية-التصويت-على-قانون-مطلع-أيار-يلزم-الحكومة-بتقديم-الحسابات-الختامية?fbclid=IwAR2v01tPm1NL1Z-golMX1G1hRmIh-EbQ-QAhgf4obgoaTtP7whOYGoKUQw0

Baghdad today - Baghdad The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohamed Halboussi, said Saturday (April 13, 2019) that he supports the naming of two officers for the Ministry of Interior and Defense, while pointing out that the Interior Ministry's Interior Minister, Faleh Fayyad, may be given a position close to Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. " The delay in the completion of the ministerial cab is not at all convincing and it was supposed to have a time limit," Halaboussi said in the program " Point of View " with Dr. Nabil Jassim, broadcast by the Tigris channel. He added: "I was expecting to resolve the matter with the return of parliament to convene last month," pointing out that "the differences are continuing on the internal, defense and justice." "I am giving the prime minister the freedom to choose to name the ministerial cab after setting a time limit for the political forces if he fails to name the ministers himself and put to the vote," he said. He pointed out that "there is talk to develop the post of Deputy Prime Minister for security and position may be given to Faleh Fayyad as an alternative to the appropriation of the Ministry of the Interior." "I support the nomination of current or retired officers to the Ministry of Interior and Defense," he said. "I do not support giving the posts to civilian figures." On the naming of the heads of parliamentary committees, said Halbusi: "There is a problem between the conquest and the rest prevent the naming of heads of parliamentary committees, and I have a meeting with the parties to discuss the matter." On the service side, he said: "We will move to develop treatments for the housing crisis and the action taken by the government in this regard is unclear." https://baghdadtoday.news/ar/news/81097/%D8%A7%D9%8

My wife had an order in the process of being shipped out when they were raided...( $1200.00 worth ) She will definitely fill out that paper work in hopes of getting the currency purchased or her money back. Thanks for sharing this link!

There ya go Kapistrami...put that in your pipe and smoke it ! Thank you so much Yota for your tireless effort in bringing us the news

The 1st 1/4 of 2018 is in 7 days...I'm good with that. Gives them a last ditch effort to suck in whatever chunky money from Erbil.

Resolving Erbil-Baghdad Crisis “Big Priority for US”: National Security Advisor Basnews English 15/12/2017 - 00:24 Kurdistan ERBIL — National Security Adviser to the US President, H. R. McMaster, said on Wednesday that finding a solution to the disputes between Erbil and Baghdad is “a big priority” for Donald Trump’s administration. Speaking at an annual conference of the Jamestown Foundation, McMaster explained that Washington has been assisting Kurds since 1991 with Operation Provide Comfort (OPC), hoping to protect them from atrocities carried out against them. “What happened?” McMaster asked. “You saw the Kurdish Region flourish.” He valued the developments in Kurdistan Region and said, “It’s a miracle, almost, what happened in Northern Iraq in terms of beautiful cities in Sulaimani, Erbil, and Dohuk.” “We think an important aspect of Iraq being strong is resolving this conflict and tension between the Kurdish Region and the rest of Iraq,” he said, as reported by Kurdistan24. “So we’re committed to that.” “We are committed to the territorial integrity of Iraq and also the territorial integrity of the Kurdish Region… We are committed to work together with the Kurdish leadership [and] the Iraqi leadership to mediate the best we can.” http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/kurdistan/400052