The United States resumed at least some air shipments of U.S. dollars to Iraq months after Washington had initially suspended them in April, The New York Times reported July 2, citing aides to Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi. The United States, however, has not resumed suspended security cooperation with Iraq.

The United States initially suspended the dollar shipments in April in order to pressure Iraq to take additional steps to disarm Iranian-backed Shiite militias, which attacked U.S. military assets in Iraq, Gulf countries and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region during the conflict, though the suspensions did not affect electronic dollar transfers for imports. Furthermore, the United States used the suspension of dollar shipments to pressure Iraq to select a prime minister that was not aligned with Iran, after Washington rejected former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's candidacy.