The Expediency Council’s Saturday meeting on joining the UN Convention on Transnational Crime (Palermo bill) ended without conclusion, leaving the final decision to the next session. The meeting was chaired by Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, Iranian Judiciary Chief, and also attended by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani. According to Seyed […]

Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, stressing that the Iranian government will not accept anything that is contrary to the Islamic Republic’s norms and principles, said the Expediency Council will decide on Palermo and CFT conventions within a month. Addressing reporters on the sidelines of Parliament’s open session on […]

 A host of elites from Qom seminary wrote a letter to the head of Expediency Council, warning that Iran’s joining FATF leads to enemies’ complete dominance over the country’s banking affairs. In a Wednesday letter to Ayatollah Amoli Larijani, Qom seminary elites mention that in case of Iran’s joining FATF, enemies can obtain banking information […]

 Senior Iranian MP Falahatpisheh said Sun. that the fate of the two remaining FATF-related bills, namely CFT and Palermo, will be decided at the Expediency Council by next month. Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said the Parliament will close the case on the bill on Iran’s accession to […]

The Expediency Council on Saturday endorsed a bill of amendment to the anti-money laundering law, a council member announced. Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghadam said the bill will be sent to Majlis speaker Ali Larijani for declaration. Larijani, Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand, Chairman of Majlis Judicial and Legal Commission Allahyar Malekshahi and Laya Joneidi, the vice president for […]

The Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei said that the council will certainly decide on the bill on Iran’s accession to the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT) based on national and revolution’s interests. In a Saturday press conference, Rezaei said that the bill has not yet been received by the Expediency Council […]

Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday approved an amendment to the first article of a bill on the country’s accession to Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) treaty – a series of standards set by the FATF (Financial Action Task Force). During an open session of the parliament on Wednesday morning, the MPs discussed problems for which […]

Iranian lawmakers will review the potential solutions to the flaws in the bill on Iran’s accession to the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT), which have been pointed out by the Guardian Council. The lawmakers are set to look into the matter during the Parliament’s open session today (Wed.) to discover appropriate legal and political […]

Today morning, a number of principalist representatives submitted a letter of protest to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and members of the Expediency Council (EC) on the move taken by the Parliament Speaker in sending two bills pertinent to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to the Expediency Council. Given the above issue, the […]

Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s Presiding Board Behrouz Nemati announced Sat. the holding of a closed session in the Parliament to be attended by senior officials to review the latest talks on Iran’s accession to Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT). Nemati reiterated that the closed session will be held on Sunday, with Foreign Minister […]