Militiaman (Uncut) 02-18-2025

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So anyway, enjoy. So let’s just get to my news tonight. So to get started tonight, we’re going to be talking about one of the first articles.

It’s like four pages long, but you know what, it’s packed full of information that’s really, it’s really happening. And this gentleman, his name is Al Nasuri. I think everybody that’s been in the Dinar investment, the Iraqi Dinar, probably knows of him, and I’ve known of him for the least 15 years that I’ve been involved.

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We really appreciate Brian. So tonight, Al Nasuri says no sanctions on Iraqi banks. False reports cause panic.

I think you guys are going to find some humor in this one, but I’ve never heard this gentleman kind of take a poke and dive at the media, but he does. It says a private banks association. He’s the advisor.

Samer Al Nasuri confirms that there are no sanctions on Iraqi banks, stressing that the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Federal Reserve have not issued any decisions to impose new sanctions and that the information circulating in this regard is inaccurate and aims to create confusion in the Iraqi market. So with Al Nasuri’s interview today, he says there are no sanctions that have been issued. The evidence is a statement issued by the Central Bank of Iraq yesterday, which clarified the results of its discussions with the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Federal Reserve in the presence of global auditing and consulting companies in Iraq, and the meeting was held in Dubai.

So this advisor, Al Nasuri, says the official statement issued by the Central Bank of Iraq must be adopted because it confirms the transparency of the central bank, as well as the transparency of international financial and auditing organizations and institutions that include the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve. It says that the statement included praise from the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Federal Reserve for the development of the cash dollar distribution system in Iraq, according to the mechanism established by the Central Bank of Iraq in 2024, which has proven effective in reducing manipulation and dollar smuggling and has been classified as one of the most advanced systems in the world. So Iraq’s central bank has been doing what they said they were going to do, and they are getting praise from those two entities because of what? They’re part of the most advanced systems in the world.

I think kudos on Al-Alaq. I think that his bad press is terrible. I think a lot of it’s been fake news, and we’re going to see some more of that.

But anyway, it says that this part is Al-Nusra explains that the Central Bank of Iraq achieved a qualitative shift in foreign transfer operations as it began working on them in January of 2025 with a new mechanism that relies on opening accounts for Iraqi banks with correspondent banks in America and China. So there’s two big major players in this. Instead of the previous electronic platform, the dollar auctions got gone in the old way that they used to do it.

And then hence, you guys hear about the black market having probably an implosion. It’s not the same as it was before. And we’ve been right about that all along.

And that’s what we do here. We try to find the best. Al-Nusra criticized the unspecialized media and unspecialized analysts who published misleading information about the alleged sanctions on Iraqi banks, saying this, they’ve been annoying citizens for two days with false claims that there are sanctions on five Iraqi banks and that the number of sanction banks will reach 37.

They even went so far as to promote false information about the sanction of Rafidane Bank without relying on any official source. So they’re saying like, look, these guys are annoying the people. The people even know that they’re wrong.

So that’s a lot of humor involved there. That’s what I thought was so funny. But OK, so yesterday he goes on and says that the Central Bank of Iraq denied those allegations that Iraqi banks were subject to international sanctions.

He goes on and stresses, hey, the Central Bank of Iraq is the body responsible for protecting the financial system in Iraq. And any decision issued by an international body, whether from the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Federal Reserve, or any other organization regarding a penalty on any bank, the Central Bank of Iraq will immediately take measures to stop it. Transfer this penalty and stop the dealings.

He goes on and adds that protecting the financial system is a top priority for the Central Bank and the government. So the government and the Central Bank working in tandem, and they both believe this cannot be compromised. I think those are pretty powerful words.

It says the number of banks whose use of the dollar has been restricted amounted to about 28 banks since 2022, 23, and 24, in addition to banks that were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, which is OFAC, bringing in the total number of 32 banks, all of which were audited by international consulting firms such as Ernst & Young. They kind of go to it. Oliver Wyman, for instance.

But yet none of them were proven to have violated instructions or dealt with countries subject to sanctions. So they’re giving them a pass. That’s really cool, you guys.

It’s really good. So as of March of last year, the Central Bank of Iraq and the U.S. Treasury agreed to review sanctions imposed on Iraqi banks, according to a statement issued by the bank at that time. And so they go on to say that it says, but Iraqi banks restricted from dealing in dollars are now currently working to correct the situation.

So if they had problems, they’re working to correct those situations and adhere to international standards, which was praised by the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve during the last meeting. So this is all recent. This is big.

So I like it. So it says new mechanism for foreign transfers, according to international standards, the Advisory Association of Private Banks, which is Al Nasiri, of course, the Central Bank of Iraq has moved since January 21st, or 1st, 2025, to a new mechanism for foreign transfers whereby operations are carried out directly between the bank that has a correspondent bank and the correspondent bank itself, while regulatory authorities such as the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department audit the transfers after they are sent and not before that it was previously the case. So the central bank no longer carries out executive procedures for transfers.

So it’s on the correspondent banks, just like they said they were going to do. We’ve known this for well over a year or more, that that’s how it was going to work. The central bank wasn’t going to be doing what they were doing with what? Those dollar auctions.

So now it says the central bank no longer carries out executive procedures for transfers. It’s amazing. Really, we’ve been over this, but now we have it literally in print from Al Nasiri.

It’s pretty good. The Iraqi economy has moved from the stage of fragility. That’s the topic.

Al Nasiri touches on the strength of the Iraqi economy, noting that according to reports from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Iraqi economy has moved from a stage of fragility to a stage of recovery. And as these international reports are based in transparent and accurate data, they’re based off international reports based on transparent and accurate data. But it says here in response to about the availability of dollars to traders, the advisor goes on and says a dollar is available to all traders and companies in places like Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and all Iraqi governance according to legal procedures.

So there’s no issue with that if they do it by their legal procedures. But it says it, but any trading, any trader who has not registered his company or works in retail trade without complying with banking, check that out with retail, so that’s down to the street, without complying with banking standards will be held legally accountable. So all those not playing by the rules are going to be held legally accountable.

He goes on and says the Iraqi dinar will gain its strength, and the exchange rate will return to a balance sooner or later. But that depends on completing the methodology of the financial banking reform and addressing the issue of the remaining cash use of the dollar in the market. It says regarding the strength of the local currency and the amount of liquidity, he explains that the Iraqi dinar is fully backed and covered by the U.S. dollar with a cash reserve exceeding 117 billion, while with the local liquidity issued it’s exceeded 100 trillion dinars, which means that the Iraqi economy is solid and solid, that’s twice, but anyway that means it’s solid despite the regional and global political and security challenges.

It says that al-Nusrai pointed out that Iraqi currently has 72 banks and seven government banks, but there are plans to reform the banking sector in cooperation with international consulting firms such as ones I’ve mentioned, Ernst & Young, Oliver Wyman, again they mentioned that. It says which this may lead to reducing the number of banks in the future, merging some of them so that the final number becomes more in line with the size of the Iraqi economy. It just says that the number of banks may decrease to 40 banks from 72 or even less to match the actual needs of the Iraqi market.

To me you guys this article is packed with quality, it’s full of reality and real facts. Al-Nusrai is an advisor on banking and financial concerns for the country of Iraq, he’s well versed on the reality of Iraq’s banking and financial system. He calls out the fake news today openly with a little dig with it, telling the news to quit annoying the citizens and they’re tired of it.

This is the second time I had to laugh, the third time I’d love it. We get this in the United States everyone, we all know that the news media is really coming full circle, pointing out that a lot of fake news is really true. But anyway, we won’t get into that, but Iraq is prepared to go international with the support of dollar reserves.

Not to mention, I think she increased gold 10 tons, I believe it’s somewhere around 162 tons of gold is inclusive with the 117 billion dollar reserves. I know that was a long little article but it’s packed full of information and it does suggest that Iraq is fully ready to go. They got praise from the United States treasury, they got praise from the U.S. Federal Reserve, they got the best accounting firms and consulting firms in the world working with them and they have been, but they didn’t just show up yesterday, they’ve been around for years.

If you guys go back to the article 4 consultation with the IMF, which is separate than article 8 and article 4 of the IMF with respect to currency, so you just keep that in mind. But this is powerful because basically Iraq has done everything they need to do. That’s how I see it.

But whether that happens or not is going to be another question. But in here’s another article, it’s called In Rapid Developments, the region announces that the region being everybody, if you have the center in the region, which is the center is Baghdad, the region is the Kurdistan region. The region announces the date of exporting its oil and a delegation from Baghdad visits Erbil tonight.

So that was today sometime. It says that the acting minister of the natural resources in the Kurdistan regional Kamal Mohammed announced that all obstacles resuming oil exports have been removed, indicating the possibility of resuming exports before March. So sometime possibly before March, there’s going to be a couple of different quotes tonight, but that’s what this one says.

It says all obstacles have been removed and it’s possible to resume oil exports before March. He goes on and explains that the president of the Republic of Iraq had signed the amendment to the budget law and all that remained was its publication in the Iraqi Gazette for it to become effective. It’s not necessary, as he adds, for oil exports to resume in March.

It may happen before that date. The legal procedures have been completed and from a technical standpoint, we do not have any problems. I don’t know you guys, as they say, drop the mic, right? I just thought Al Nasseri is talking about this.

The minister of natural resources is talking about all obstacles have been removed, reminding us the president of the Republic of Iraq has signed the amendment to the budget law and it just needs to be published in the Gazette. So it says it’s not necessary for oil exports to resume in March. It just may happen before that day.

And so the legal procedures that have been completed from a technical standpoint have not any problems. Basically goes on and says, well, the Turkish side should also be ready to resume exports. So they should be ready too.

So the delegation from the federal ministry of oil will visit Erbil tonight. And the meetings were scheduled to begin Tuesday, which is coming up. Next item is going to be about, well, first off, this was powerful information in this article.

It really is. The president of the Republic has signed the amendment to the budget law. So that’s already been done.

It’s waiting to be the exposure to me of the exchange rate. It’s going to be in the Gazette. So does Al-Alaq have a conversation with everybody before that, or is it just all around the same time? It’s to be determined.

But obviously they haven’t moved oil at 1310. They haven’t paid all the salaries at 1310. They haven’t done that.

And they haven’t exposed the budget. So obviously we can see that they’re doing something, trying to keep it contained down to the wire. I believe it has to do with Article 12-2C, which is the budget law, that number 4802 from the ministry of justice in the Gazette that was never public.

We think that that’s where it lies. And so we’re going to find out, but they’re openly talking about it being coming in the Gazette. When do they print that? They printed about three days a week.

So today’s Monday. And did we see it? We didn’t. But did they publish on Mondays? They do.

So here we are. We’re just watching to see what’s the next date. What’s the date after that? I don’t know.

That’s how it looks to be working. So this article here is al-Sudani, prime minister of Iraq. It says al-Sudani enhances Iraq’s international standing in Munich and Prague.

His international standing. Iraq’s about ready to go international. We just saw that from al-Nusra.

Iraq’s ready to go international. Then we talk about there’s no obstacles. And then here al-Sudani says that’s why he was in Munich.

And it’s enhancing Iraq’s international standing. So I’ll move on to this article and we’ll see how it plays out. It’s many paragraphs, but you can find this in our Patreon room and our Discord, if you care to be a member.

But again, I’m just going to read you some of the basics. It says Iraq political and diplomatic arena witnessed remarkable activity through the participation of the prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in the Munich security forum. Obviously that was in the capital of Prague.

And he met with and signed agreements with his counterpart in the Czech, his Czech counterpart. All right. So they go on.

Some of the items were a presence that reflects Iraq’s international weight. So Iraq’s got weight. Strengthening security and international partnerships.

So they’re gearing up for international partnerships, making sure that the security’s tightened down. Visit to Prague. It says strategic partnerships and economic prospects.

So they’re looking to do business economic prospects. It says Iraq’s role in a regional stability. They talk about the role of what Iraq does.

Iraq’s been a mediator in the past. I think she’s taken a rightful position back where she was. I think if you guys recall that they’ve had talk about the Arab League.

Iraq has been one of those, a founding member. So here it says attracting investments and boosting the economy. I like this part.

It says al-Sudani’s visit to Prague in his participation in the Munich forum reflects that Iraq’s government’s orientations towards attracting foreign investments, especially in the infrastructure and energy sectors. Well, you should all realize that that’s the development road project and energy. Iraq still has a lot of energy, but she has a lot that she’s not using to self-sufficiency yet, and they’ll probably keep working on that.

And one of those is the gas, natural gas. Al-Sudani’s recent – oh, it says balance Iraqi policy towards stronger relations. It says al-Sudani’s recent visit shows clear trends.

Iraq’s strengthening international standing by adopting a balanced diplomatic policy based on strategic partnerships and the security and economic cooperation. He says that Iraq is affirming its growing regional international role, paving the way for more international partnerships and economic opportunities in the near future. So he knows that he’s going to get something done, and he’s going to keep getting more things done as it goes.

So we all know the development path that al-Sudani’s paving is gaining traction and while securing international partnerships. The economic opportunities he’s going to provide is going to be massive as far as I can tell, I think, if you just think about it. If you know some economics and if you’ve ever read about mound systems, even we – I think those homeschoolers probably see some of that more they do in regular schools, but it’s important because for every one job, sometimes they create four jobs.

And in some third world countries, every good paying one job gets 12 more jobs. So when they talk about having 100,000 jobs, well, then they talk about a million jobs, you can – it’s going to have a profound effect, okay? It’s going to be big. So – and they haven’t done this at 1310 yet, have they, to one – 1310 IQD to one dollar.

It’s not going to work. In my view, that will never happen. And so we’re watching for – to see something different, and I expect it to come.

So look, this article here comes out for a date. A date. No, not a date in a rate, but it’s a date according to what they write.

But if you realize how Iraq writes reports, you’ve got to be careful. It says that a date set for resuming Kurdistan oil exports. Iraq oil minister, gas investments projects are going.

So we talked about gas, we talked about oil, we talked about salaries, we talked about a lot of that stuff. But in this particular article, the Iraqi minister of oil, Heyan Abdul Afani, announced on Monday that the implementation of several gas investment projects while calling on international companies to submit their collective offers to compete in the upcoming licensing rounds, he reveals that the results of the resumption of the export of Kurdistan region’s oil via the Turkish Cyan pipeline will be within a week. Within a week.

That’s today. So within a week. All right, we’ll see how that turns out.

It says that during the opening of the Iraqi British Business Forum in Baghdad, it says that the ministry of oil is currently implementing several projects to invest in gas, most notably the contract with the French company Total, which will produce about 600 million cubic feet in Basra government and about 200 million cubic feet of gas with Baker Hughes to invest in gas from the fields of Nasiriyah city. Those are two of the biggest companies in the world, you guys. That’s flat out true in their respective positions.

Okay. So that’s big. And the amount of gas is massive.

Okay. It’s far more than they probably need. Therefore, they could probably sell it.

They can export it. All right. So I mean, those of you that do the math, I think we have some members in our room that probably knows how to do that really well and are involved in the gas.

Okay. So they know it well. He states that Iraq is working through these projects to meet domestic consumption requirements, especially with regard to operating power stations in the country.

Alfani goes on and calls on international companies to submit these offers to compete in the licensing round to invest in these fields and exploration areas that the ministry of oil intends to offer for investment in the future in a number of provinces. He states that the ministry of oil is currently implementing, so now he says currently implementing, major projects to meet refining requirements and to build new refineries in addition to projects to build new lines to export oil and gas, just like I said. He says that he confirms that Baghdad and Erbil are in the process of putting the final touches on the start of receiving and exporting Kurdistan region oil within a week.

And so this gentleman says that’s going on today and he’s the Iraqi minister of oil. So that’s coming from, it’s not coming from fake news. It’s not coming from social media.

Okay. So he says that Abdul Alfani goes on and says, we’ve agreed with the region to receive no less than 300,000 barrels per day from the region’s fields to export them through the Turkish port of Syan. And guess what? He points out that the delegation will head from Baghdad to Erbil next Tuesday to negotiate the mechanism for using the oil.

Its export will resume within a week. I hope everybody realizes what I’ve been telling you. So basically, again, there’s no oil flow through the Syan to the loss of about 19 billion.

The salaries have been held back. There’s no exposure to the budget law, Article 12.2c yet. It’s all while being at, what, 1310, 1320 today to the IQD to the USD.

That’s what it is based on the CBI’s website. So those facts that Iraq needs the exchange rate that is internationally, I mean, those facts support to me my knowledge that Iraq needs the exchange rate that is internationally acceptable to be fully in compliance with the IMF Articles 4, Article 8. Okay. That’s currency trade.

Related. It says oil to flow possibly before March 25th. That’s basically what they’re telling you.

This week, next week, whatever it’s going to be, but before March 25th. And these meetings were on this from, you know, based off the oil moving through that pipeline. And they were today and possibly tomorrow.

So let’s see what happens. It looks to be strong support from what we here at Militia Man and Crew have to offer. And I hope everybody is getting excited because, yeah, I do have a giddy up in my step, if you will, with those, some of the less I remember those days, old Western movies.

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