Member of the National Security Commission of Iran’s Parliament:‎

Acceptance of CFT will impose heavy damage on the economy of the country ‎

Rasa – Mr. Abolfazl Hasanbeygi said that the adoption of the CFT will lead to heavy ‎damages for the Iranian economy and added, “The CFT is a tool in the hands of the great ‎powers, especially the United States, in pursuit of their hegemonic and arrogant goals.”‎

News ID: 441861

Date: 04 December 2018 - 11:14

RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Mr. Abolfazl Hasanbeygi, a member ‎of the National Security Commission of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly, referred to the ‎economic consequences of the approval and adoption of the‏ ‏Combating the Financing of ‎Terrorism (CFT) bill and said, “After having encountered problems with the CFT, the Guardian ‎Council referred it back to the Islamic Consultative Assembly. The Islamic Consultative ‎Assembly also, having examined its problems transferred them to the National Security and ‎Foreign Policy Commission.”‎

The Iranian politician continued, “In addition to this, there was a meeting between ‎Mohammad-Javad Zarif, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his deputies, the Minister of ‎Information, Mohammad-Javad Azari-Jahromi, and his deputies, Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the ‎spokesman for Iran’s Guardian Council, and a number of experts from the Research Centre ‎of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and other experts.”‎‏ ‏

He referred to the economic implications of the adoption of the CFT and said, “The CFT is ‎an international treaty, the treaty is essentially a tool in the hands of the great powers, ‎especially the United States, in pursuit of their hegemonic and arrogant goals. Accordingly, ‎the Guardian Council regards parts of the treaty as contrary to the constitution and religious ‎law.”‎

Emphasizing that the CFT treaty could impose heavy damage on the country’s economy, Mr. ‎Hasanbeygi said, “The Guardian Council believes that as long as Iran doesn’t join the CFT, ‎Americans cannot make excuses but when we become party to the treaty, they can draw up ‎a new excuse every day and can organize various cases in the United States against the ‎Islamic Republic, which is a trait of the United States which always seeks to benefit from ‎strife and conflict.”  ‎

He added that in the past, some individuals shouted slogans that, if we don’t join such and ‎such a treaty, we will put on the “black list” and argued, “Our experience proved that such ‎claims was incorrect and were merely false claims. The Americans have no authority to put ‎the Islamic Republic of Iran on the black list. We must stand up to their tyranny and defend ‎the rights of the nation and national security.”‎

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