MNA Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has put Iran on its blacklist after Iran allegedly failed to comply with international anti-terrorism financing norms. Reuters revealed the news, adding that however, the FATF appeared to leave the door ajar for Iran saying countries should also be able to apply countermeasures independently of any call by ...

MNA Today, Iran Expediency Council passed the set deadline for it to announce its verdict on the ratification of FATF-related bills i.e., CFT and Palermo; accordingly, joining the bill is no longer on agenda of Iranian legislators. If the government plans to reopen the FATF file, it has to submit a new related plan to the Parliament to be approved ...

MNA Expressing his view about ratification of the bill on joining the Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Ayatollah Amoli Larijani, the chairman of Iran's Expediency Council called CFT a major threat to Irans national security and worse than the nuclear deal, JCPOA. In my opinion, Palermo and CFT are very dangerous for Iran's national security,...

MNA Chairman of the Iranian Parliaments security commission said the evaluation of the two remaining FATF-related bills, namely the Palermo and CFT, has not been pushed off agenda of the Expediency Council. Speaking to Tasnim on Saturday, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Mojtaba Zonnour, said the ...

MNA Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said that the Council does not consider hasty joining of the country to Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) bill advisable. Expediency Council is mulling over the issue of joining to CFT Bill meticulously and adoption of hasty and snap decision on this issue is not advisable, he said on Wed....

Press TV - The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has said that China and Russia have urgedTehran to adopt a series of rules by the global money laundering watchdog FATF to allow trade between Iran and allies to continue smoothly. China and Russia have informed us that Irans inclusion in the FATF blacklist would have a negative impact on ...

MNA The Public Relations of the Expediency Council in a statement has rejected rumors that the two remaining FATF-related bills, namely the Palermo and CFT, have been given the final green light by the Council. These bills are still being evaluated at the joint commission of the Expediency Council, the statement read. The commission has not yet ...

IRNA - A member of the Expediency Council on approving or rejecting the bills of the two CFT and Palermo conventions in the Expediency Council, noted that the two bills are being reviewed by the Joint Commission of the Expediency Council (EC). Speaking to IRNA on Sunday, Majid Ansari noted that the remaining bills of the Special Financial Action ...

MNA MP Ahmad Salek said Sun. that Iran has obtained self-sufficnecy in many areas while under sanctions for 40 years, adding that joining the Finance Action Task Force (FATF) means giving in to enemy. A Member of Parliament Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Salek made the remarks on Sun. while speaking to MNA correspondent. In spite of the implementation ...

Financial Tribune - Addressing a weekly Cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, the government spokesman, Ali Rabiei, said complying with FATF rules is in the interest of the nation Senior officials on Wednesday called on top legislative authorities to ratify remaining anti-money laundering bills demanded by the Financial Action Task Force, after ...

Tasnim The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gave Iran a final deadline of February 2020 to tighten its rules against money laundering in compliance with the global watchdogs financial standards. If before February 2020, Iran does not enact the Palermo and Terrorist Financing Conventions in line with the FATF Standards, then the FATF ...

MNA The Sun. meeting of the Expediency Council was dedicated to addressing the ratification of two controversial FATF-related treaties, namely the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT) and the UN Palermo Convention on Transnational Organized Crime. The second meeting of the joint commission of the Expediency Council, chaired by Mohsen ...

MNA Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei says the majority of the Councils members are against joining the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) under the current economic sanctions. In a Sunday tweet, Rezaei wrote that under the current sanctions, the majority of the [Expediency Council] members do not agree on joining FATF. Noting ...

MNA Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei voiced doubt about the effectiveness of the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT) in establishing security in the world. In a Sunday tweet in Persian, he wrote if conventions, such as the one against the funding of terrorism, are effective in establishing security, why the world should ...

MNA A member of the Iranian parliament has called for pulling out from the nuclear deal as well as rejecting the FATF-related Combating Funding of Terrorism (CFT) bill. Addressing todays session in the Iranian Parliament, Abbas Goudarzi, a member of the Principalist faction in the Iranian Parliament criticized the government for insistence on approving ...

MNA The member of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Mojtahed Shabestari says that the council members postponed the decision on UNODC bill today due to its relevance to another FATF-related bill-CFT, as well as the JCPOA-related commitments of the European countries. The two FATF-related bills of Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) ...

MNA Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said that behavior of European countries will influence the bodys final decision about ratifying FATF-related bills. He made the remarks Saturday in Tehran at a press conference after todays session of the Council on Palermo bill ended without a conclusion. Since the bill on Irans accession ...

FNA - A senior Iranian lawmaker lashed out at the western countries for trying to impose their monetary restrictions, including the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations, on Iran. "Accepting Palermo Convention and the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT) is only ...

MNA The Expediency Councils Saturday meeting on joining the UN Convention on Transnational Crime (Palermo bill) ended without conclusion, leaving the fate of the bill unknown till the next Iranian year (starting in March 21), a member of the council said. Upon the request of Government and Parliament representatives to decide the fate of Palermo ...

MNA A member of the Expediency Council, Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam said on Fri. that the Council will mull over the Convention against the Funding of Terrorism (CFT) after determining the fate of UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, known as Palermo Convention in Iran. The bill on Irans accession to the International Convention ...