Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour:‎

FATF will make Iran economic situation worse

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.” ‎

News ID: 441829

Date: 03 December 2018 - 09:48

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.”‎

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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.”‎

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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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