Trump threatens to withhold Iraqi money in the US Fed Bank, if it doesn’t toe the line on US troop presence in Iraq
US President Donald Trump is facing criticism from a wide range of figures for threatening to freeze Iraq’s account at the New York Fed.
The controversy follows an Iraqi parliamentary resolution that asked foreign troops, including US soldiers, to leave the country. The outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi has already asked US officials to prepare for the withdrawal of American soldiers. that the US State Department has warned that Iraq’s central bank could be stopped from accessing its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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