Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour:
Rasa – Emphasizing that the FATF is troublesome for Iran and its people, the representative of the people of Qom in the Islamic Consultative Assembly said, “By enacting this bill not only will the economy of the country not improve, but it will get worse.”
RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Hujjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zonnour, the representative of the people of Qom in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, said that some of the objections of the Guardian Council in regard to the text of a bill on Iran’s accession to Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and said, “Some of the objections of the Guardian Council weren’t related to the text of the bill and they can be modified but some of the objections are text-related and cannot be corrected.”
The member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly objected to the approval of the CFT bill, saying, “If the bill enters the open session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, I’m opposed because the Guardian Council’s view is to reject the bill and the text of the treaty itself is difficult. On the basis of minor amendments to the National Security Commission, the main objections of the text won’t be resolved. In addition, the seven conditions of the commission don’t secure some of the clauses considered by the Guardian Council and thus, the objections to the text will remain and the dispute will be brought to the open session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.”
Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour continued, “In this case, the parliament must either reject or accept the CFT bill. If the bill is rejected, the opinion of the Guardian Council is secured and, if approved, the opinion of the Guardian Council isn’t secured and, naturally, the work of the Expediency Council will be referenced.”
His Eminence stated that the approval of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) would circumvent the sanctions and emphasized, “When we give all of our export and import information to the FATF, in fact, information on Iran’s transactions with other parties will be given to the enemies and they will also sanction the same sections.”
Emphasizing that the FATF is troublesome for Iran and its people, he said, “By enacting this bill, all financial information will be transparent to the enemies, such that not only will the economy of the country not improve, but it will get worse.”
Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour stated that the president of the FATF, Marshall Billingslea, is the Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing in the United States Department of the Treasury and is responsible for the sanctions on Iran, such that the adoption of the FATF would entail the transfer of the country’s financial intelligence to the United States Department of the Treasury for them to impose even more severe sanctions.
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