US President Donald Trump’s administration has suspended dollar shipments to Iraqi authorities and bilateral cooperation programs with the country’s armed forces to escalate pressure on Baghdad to force it to “dismantle” powerful pro-Iranian militias, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday (Tuesday), citing sources in the two governments, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources in the governments of both countries.
The Journal noted that a flight that was to have carried nearly $500 million in U.S. currency, proceeds from Iraqi oil sales through accounts at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, was recently canceled by the Treasury Department for that purpose.
