Baghdad's Missing Change
CENTCOM hit dozens of IRGC targets overnight. Baghdad sent the PM's money-man on TV to explain the vanished small notes. The CBI rebuild went live on schedule.
Thursday, July 30. Overnight, American fire landed on dozens of IRGC targets inside Iran in a single wave, the answer to the Guard's missiles over Jordan. Loud, fast, and all over your screens this morning. The 10 minutes we want you to hold onto came earlier, in a Baghdad television studio, where Mazhar Muhammad Salih, the Prime Minister's financial advisor, sat down on camera to explain a shortage. The 250 and 500 dinar notes have quietly vanished from Iraq's market stalls. Small change, worn paper, an administrative note buried under a day of war coverage.
Around those 2 stories, Wednesday stacked up fast. Trump told Baghdad's militias what he thought of them. Al-Zaidi protested, al-Sadr warned Tehran, and Hadi al-Amiri demanded a response. Kevin Warsh spent his afternoon refereeing 3 dissenters at the Fed. Scott Bessent's Treasury sank an extortion racket at Hormuz.
Here is the thread we will pull today. The war on Iran's grip is now loud enough to fill every screen you own. And underneath the noise, Baghdad keeps doing quiet, boring, specific things to its money that only make sense in one direction. Stay with us.
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