Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhmi's spokesman Ahmad Mulla Talal said that the government is determined to take resolute actions to end corruption at the border outlets. In a press conference June 30, Mulla Talal said, “Pretty soon the government will take resolute action under the prime minister’s direct supervision to establish state control over the border outlets, which the beneficiaries and corruption mafias have tainted,” without naming any.

Soon after, Kadhimi has started a campaign to impose full government control on the borders outlets. The campaign has started on July 11, when Kadhimi visited Diyala province. He reopened Mandalay border outlet with Iran and ordered the Rapid Response Forces to take control of the border and stop any illegal actions there. 

The next step was in Basra during Kadhimi trip on July 15. He ordered security forces to impose strict security and military measures on the province borders with Iran and Kuwait. Basra is Iraq's only outlet to the Persian Gulf. The security of Iraqi ports have been handed to the Marine Force Command and the land borders which include Shalamcheh outlet with Iran and Safwan outlet with Kuwait were handed to Basra Operations Force. 

The dwindling oil prices and the coronavirus outbreak have caused a stifling financial crisis in Iraq. The oil revenues that Iraq mainly depends on plummeted by nearly 50%. Based on that, the country will have to resort to domestic and foreign borrowing enabled under the law that parliament voted on June 24. The law allows the government to borrow $13 billion to pay employee salaries and to finance key sectors, such as the health sector.