{"id":187194,"date":"2026-07-02T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/187194\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:32:08","slug":"donald-trump-administration-resumes-transfer-of-us-dollars-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/187194\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump administration resumes transfer of US dollars to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transfer of US dollars from the United States to Iraq has resumed following a suspension intended to pressure the country to distance itself from Iran, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing aides to Iraqi Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-901150\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ali al-Zaidi.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dollar shipments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900676\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq<\/a> have resumed,\u201d prime minister spokesperson Haider al-Aboudi told the NYT. \u201cThe problem has been resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister and financial advisor Mudhar Muhammad Salih confirmed the resumption of transfers to the NYT, while an anonymous Iraqi official noted that the Trump administration&#8217;s suspension of funding and cooperation with Iraq&#8217;s security services remained in effect.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0NYT, the US government initially stopped the transfers in April, which included withholding earnings from Iraqi oil sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report cited an Iraqi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-900918\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kurdish<\/a> official who attributed the measures to a response to the smuggling of American currency by Iran-backed Iraqi militias.<\/p>\n<p>The NYT reached out to the US State Department, which did not respond.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Zaidi had been leading a sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-900912\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anti-corruption crackdown<\/a> in Iraq in recent days, with forces detaining Iraqi politicians and officials across the political spectrum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to reports, $15 million in cash was found in the home of Iraqi parliament member Alia Nassif, whose son had worked with former Iraqi prime minister Mohammed al-Sudani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In an incident on Tuesday, $4 million was found in a vehicle at a checkpoint between Saladin and Diyala, according to Iraq&#8217;s Shafaq News, citing a security source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Iraq&#8217;s state news agency published the names of those arrested thus far, including Iraqi civil servants, directors general, politicians, and businessmen.<\/p>\n<p>Seth J. Frantzman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The transfer of US dollars from the United States to Iraq has resumed following a suspension intended to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[34913,2870,34,94,6958,256],"class_list":["post-187194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-al-zaidi","tag-dollar","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-militia","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116849458756221536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}