{"id":33798,"date":"2026-10-07T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33798"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:42:10","slug":"stephen-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33798","title":{"rendered":"Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">Stephen &#8211; Dinar Guru <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Iraq must go through the US financial system to access its dollars.\u00a0 Iraq sells oil\u00a0internationally in dollars.\u00a0 Those proceeds are deposited into its New York Fed account.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0When Iraq needs physical dollars that\u00a0money moves through systems monitored by the Untied States.\u00a0\u00a0<u>That gives Washington substantial influence over physical dollar\u00a0shipments<\/u>, international transfers, banking compliance and prevention of dollars from reaching sanctioned entities like Iran.\u00a0\u00a0<u>Iraq\u00a0earns the money but accessing it and moving it requires US cooperation<\/u>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen &#8211; Dinar Guru \u00a0Iraq must go through the US financial system to access its dollars.\u00a0 Iraq sells oil\u00a0internationally in dollars.\u00a0 Those proceeds are deposited into its New York Fed account.\u00a0\u00a0When Iraq needs physical dollars that\u00a0money moves through systems monitored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gMgY-8N8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33799,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798\/revisions\/33799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}