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Expediency Council leaves decision on Palermo bill to next session 26 Jan 2019

Expediency Council leaves decision on Palermo bill to next session

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 […]

Expediency Council to decide on Palermo, CFT within a month 20 Jan 2019

Expediency Council to decide on Palermo, CFT within a month

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 […]

Qom seminary warns joining FATF favors enemies 16 Jan 2019

Qom seminary warns joining FATF favors enemies

 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 […]

Expediency Council to close case on CFT, Palermo bills by Feb 06 Jan 2019

Expediency Council to close case on CFT, Palermo bills by Feb

 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 […]

Anti-money laundering bill of amendment past Expediency Council 06 Jan 2019

Anti-money laundering bill of amendment past Expediency Council

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 […]

Expediency Council to decide on CFT based on national interest: Rezaei 15 Dec 2018

Expediency Council to decide on CFT based on national interest: Rezaei

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 MPs Approve Amendment to Bill on Iran’s Accession to CFT 05 Dec 2018

Iranian MPs Approve Amendment to Bill on Iran’s Accession to CFT

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 […]

Parl. open session to review solutions to CFT flaws today 05 Dec 2018

Parl. open session to review solutions to CFT flaws today

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 […]

Principalist representatives pen a letter of protest to Parl. speaker over FATF 27 Oct 2018

Principalist representatives pen a letter of protest to Parl. speaker over FATF

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 […]

Zarif, Araghchi to attend Parl. closed session on CFT tomorrow 20 Oct 2018

Zarif, Araghchi to attend Parl. closed session on CFT tomorrow

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 […]