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US cuts Iraqi tap to IRGC

2023-01-08T18:49:08.870Z


DECRYPTION - Washington has imposed sanctions on fifteen private Iraqi banks suspected of secretly financing the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.


The information, published in the Iraqi press, went largely unnoticed.

However, it is important in the context of the deterioration of the economic situation in Tehran.

"Severe American sanctions are imminent against more than fifteen private Iraqi banks"

, wrote the newspaper

al-Mada

in Baghdad recently.

They would target, according to the publication,

“establishments affiliated with political parties and supported by well-known personalities”

.

These banks reportedly smuggle more than $100 million a week to four neighboring countries, including Iran, but also Syria, Jordan and Turkey.

The United States, which had been threatening for several years to take such sanctions, is determined to cut off the Iraqi tap which allowed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, placed on the list of terrorist organizations by Washington, to finance themselves from the Iraqi neighbor. , where Tehran enjoys an important network of influences.

A diplomat…

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Source: lefigaro

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