Press Release

The International Monetary Fund is a tool in the hands of the infidel to control the internal policy of the borrowing country

The International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday, 7/9/2025, that the Iraqi economy faces major challenges, and the Fund's Board stated during the conclusion of Article IV consultations with Iraq in its statement that there is room to enhance non-oil revenues by increasing taxes and customs duties.

It pointed out that on the revenue side, in addition to strengthening tax administration, there is room to increase customs duties and production taxes, and reform personal income tax, including limiting exemptions, and imposing a general sales tax in the medium term.

On the spending side, comprehensive reforms to public wage bills, by limiting employment, and adopting a rule to reduce the number of employees, would be beneficial.

Finally, it is urgent to reform the public pension system by raising the retirement age and reducing entitlement and replacement rates.

These are the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund to the Iraqi government, and they are a blatant interference in the internal policy of the country.

O Muslims, O people of Iraq: It is no longer a secret to anyone the extent of the economic confusion in your country, and the increase in poverty despite its enormous wealth, and the reason is the connection of your systems to America and other countries coveting your country through their arms, and America is the one with the upper hand in these arms represented by the dollar and by the International Bank and the International Monetary Fund. America has adopted financial aid as one of its political tools, which outwardly helps countries in need, but in reality, it influences the political decision of the country.

It is shameful and sad that a country like Iraq with its enormous wealth and abundant resources resorts to borrowing, and from where?! From an entity that wants to dominate the political decision of the country, especially the internal policy!

What the council mentioned above about increasing taxes and levies on people is not advice, but rather it is stealing the effort of the people after they stole the country's wealth, so that America and the countries of Europe can live in a state of luxury and extravagance at the expense of the Islamic peoples who live in a state of poverty and need after they stole them, and so that this organization can guarantee its access to its money with the doubled usurious increase, and it is also an intervention in internal politics until the matter reached controlling employment and retirement!

So, do these insignificant rulers have an opinion or command left?!

Their foreign policy is linked to their infidel masters, and their political and economic system is imposed on them, and they have not even left them their internal policy, so what humiliation and what degradation is the Islamic nation living in today?!

O Muslims: Know for certain that these arms cannot be cut off, and your wealth cannot be returned to you, and the influence of the infidel cannot leave your country except with the righteous Caliphate state, the promise of God Almighty and the glad tidings of His noble Messenger ﷺ, so come to work hard with Hizb ut-Tahrir to establish this great obligation in which is your glory and the humiliation of the infidels, and before all that, the pleasure of the Lord of the Worlds.

﴿Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient.﴾

The Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Iraq