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Daily Links — Thursday, August 20, 2026
Thursday stays on the dinar: The National reports Iraqi officials are reviving the currency overhaul and weighing deleting the zeros, while Shafaq says the corruption review has now reached former prime ministers and lawmakers, and the government moves to secure salaries and running expenses. On the bigger board, a viral claim that the ISO 20022 banking-rail migration completes August 24, Trump billing a 'most crushing economic operation ever' against Iran, and US debt tagged at $40 trillion as the 'doom loop' talk grows. Here's everything on the desk.
Iraq & the Dinar
- Iraq considers deleting zeros from the dinar as officials revive the currency overhaul — The National
- Exclusive: Iraq's corruption review reaches former prime ministers and lawmakers — Shafaq News
- Government measures to secure salaries and governing expenses — Al-Sabah
Money & Markets
- Claim: the ISO 20022 standard completes its migration across all major banking rails on August 24 — a threshold for the global financial system — X
- 'Doom loop' engaged: US debt hits $40 trillion as Treasury enters the endgame — ZeroHedge
Around the World
- 'Economic D-Day': Trump announces a 'most crushing economic operation ever' against Iran — ZeroHedge
- Ceuta police warn of assaults on women amid escalating unrest at the enclave — Modernity
- 'How can this be real?' — dispatch from the Ceuta unrest — Modernity
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