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Summary

Toward #29.

Adds built-in cash channels for Western Asia (UN M49: 145), covering all 18 sovereign markets and territories across the region and completing cash channel coverage for the entire Asian continent:

Western Asian Markets

1. United Arab Emirates (AE / AED): UAE Dirham
2. Armenia (AM / AMD): Armenian Dram
3. Azerbaijan (AZ / AZN): Azerbaijani Manat
4. Bahrain (BH / BHD): Bahraini Dinar
5. Cyprus (CY / EUR): Euro
6. Georgia (GE / GEL): Georgian Lari
7. Israel (IL / ILS): Israeli New Shekel
8. Iraq (IQ / IQD): Iraqi Dinar
9. Jordan (JO / JOD): Jordanian Dinar
10. Kuwait (KW / KWD): Kuwaiti Dinar
11. Lebanon (LB / LBP): Lebanese Pound
12. Oman (OM / OMR): Omani Rial
13. State of Palestine (PS / ILS): Israeli New Shekel
14. Qatar (QA / QAR): Qatari Riyal
15. Saudi Arabia (SA / SAR): Saudi Riyal
16. Syrian Arab Republic (SY / SYP): Syrian Pound
17. Türkiye (TR / TRY): Turkish Lira
18. Yemen (YE / YER): Yemeni Rial

Implementation Details

• Uses canonical createCashPaymentChannel factory (schemaVersion: 2, automation: PaymentChannelAutomation.None, no collection fields, standard copy/display detail rows).
• Source layout follows src/channels/<country>/cash.ts per channel conventions.
• Registered in src/channels/index.ts and re-exported from src/index.ts.
• Included in builtinPaymentChannels and validated against completeness checks in test/payment-channels.test.mjs.
• Added market discovery and regression test suite registry exposes built-in cash channels for Western Asian markets.
• Refreshed generated documentation and JSON registry via npm run docs:generate.

Authoritative Documentation & Primary Sources

• United Arab Emirates: Central Bank of the UAE https://www.centralbank.ae/ (Decretal Federal Law No. (14) of 2018, Art. 52).
• Armenia: Central Bank of Armenia https://www.cba.am/ (Law on the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia, Art. 36).
• Azerbaijan: Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan https://www.cbar.az/ (Law on the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan No. 782-IIQ, Art. 33).
• Bahrain: Central Bank of Bahrain https://www.cbb.gov.bh/ (CBB and Financial Institutions Law 2006, Art. 12).
• Cyprus: Central Bank of Cyprus https://www.centralbank.cy/ (Council Decision 2007/503/EC; CBC Laws 2002 to 2017; TFEU Art. 128).
• Georgia: National Bank of Georgia https://nbg.gov.ge/ (Organic Law of Georgia on the National Bank of Georgia No. 1676-IIs, Art. 34).
• Israel: Bank of Israel https://www.boi.org.il/ (Bank of Israel Law 5770-2010, Section 41).
• Iraq: Central Bank of Iraq https://cbi.iq/ (Central Bank of Iraq Law No. 56 of 2004, Section 30).
• Jordan: Central Bank of Jordan https://www.cbj.gov.jo/ (Central Bank of Jordan Law No. 23 of 1971, Art. 21).
• Kuwait: Central Bank of Kuwait https://www.cbk.gov.kw/ (Law No. 32 of 1968 Concerning Currency, Art. 3).
• Lebanon: Banque du Liban https://www.bdl.gov.lb/ (Code de la Monnaie et du Crédit, Decree No. 13513 of 1963, Art. 1 & 7).
• Oman: Central Bank of Oman https://cbo.gov.om/ (Banking Law of Oman, Royal Decree No. 114/2000, Art. 39).
• State of Palestine: Palestine Monetary Authority https://www.pma.ps/ (Paris Protocol 1994, Art. IV; Law No. (2) of 1997 on the PMA).
• Qatar: Qatar Central Bank https://www.qcb.gov.qa/ (Law No. (13) of 2012 on the QCB, Art. 59).
• Saudi Arabia: Saudi Central Bank https://www.sama.gov.sa/ (Saudi Central Bank Law, Royal Decree No. M/36 of 1442H, Art. 8).
• Syrian Arab Republic: Central Bank of Syria http://cb.gov.sy/ (Legislative Decree No. 23 of 2002, Art. 12).
• Türkiye: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey https://www.tcmb.gov.tr/ (Law on the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey No. 1211, Art. 36).
• Yemen: Central Bank of Yemen https://cby-ye.com/ (Central Bank of Yemen Law No. 14 of 2000, Art. 24).

Verification

• npm run check (formatter, TypeScript typecheck, docs check, examples check, and 60/60 tests pass)
• npm pack --dry-run (clean tarball with runtime artifacts only)
• npm run verify:pack (verified on isolated ESM and CommonJS consumers)