🛢️➡️🌍 Is Iraq Entering a Post-Oil Dependency Era?
📈 Every time I read Iraq's economic news, I see a trend that I believe is far more important than daily oil price fluctuations: Iraq continues moving toward a more diversified economy and away from complete dependence on oil.
For decades, oil has been the primary source of revenue for Iraq. Today, however, we are seeing a growing focus on increasing non-oil revenues, strengthening the private sector, modernizing the banking system, attracting foreign investment, and expanding productive industries across the country.
🏗️ This does not look like a short-term strategy. It looks like the foundation of a new economic future.
A nation does not pursue financial reforms, banking modernization, investment initiatives, and large-scale economic development simply to remain dependent on a single resource. These are the kinds of steps countries take when they are positioning themselves for greater stability, sustainable growth, and deeper integration into the global economy.
💡 To me, the real story is not the price of oil. The real story is that Iraq appears to be preparing for a future where oil is no longer the sole engine of its economy.
🌍 A diversified economy is stronger.
📊 A diversified economy is more resilient.
🚀 A diversified economy creates greater long-term opportunities for growth and prosperity.
Transformations of this magnitude do not happen overnight, but each reform, each investment project, and each economic initiative seems to be pointing in the same direction: a more modern, competitive, and economically independent Iraq.
✨ The oil era built Iraq's foundation. The post-oil dependency era may define its future.
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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE: THE 2026 BUDGET WILL BEBASED ON A “HEDGING” OIL PRICE OF AROUND $60
(Mnt Goat: Folks, once again I have to come and say that the budget is NOT base on the rate of the dinar. Read the article and weep all you idiot intel gurus, namely TNT Tony and many others. There will not be an RV rate to the dinar in the budget. Instead, the budget is based on the price of oil. Read the article yourself. I am not making this up! 
This will continue until the dinar is repegged to a basket of currencies and back on FOREX. Until this timeframe they will continue to use the petro-dollar which is the price of oil. Oil is the main source of revenue to fulfill the budget, get it? We are NOT going to get our RV because of the budget coming out, get it? Are you stupid of what? When the economy is diversified enough as the told us will be only 45% of total revenues to fulfill the budget will be oil based. Then the can’t use the price of oil solely anymore to budget, can they? They must then move to the rate of the dinar. But they are not there yet.)
The Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Committee of the House of Representatives identified 4 features of this year’s budget.
According to the official newspaper, committee member Hawraa Aziz Al-Moussawi said, “This year’s budget will probably be based on adopting a lower (hedging) oil price in the 2026 budget, reaching about $60 per barrel, rationalizing spending, increasing non-oil revenues, and reducing complete dependence on oil.”
She explained, “There are discussions related to trying to reduce the financial deficit with the decline in global oil price expectations, because any increase in the price of oil supplied to local refineries may gradually affect the citizen.”