🎥 All the claims against CFT and Palermo were pure lies.
Hadi Khani, Head of Financial Information Center:
Some say that with the approval of CFT and Palermo, FATF's punitive measures against Iran were supposed to be suspended and entered the gray list, why didn't this happen?
The only country that joined the CFT and Palermo but had more than one or two reservations is Iran. We put 10 reservations on conferences.
This was a question for many countries, why did you put 10 conditions on these two articles? Aren't you saying you don't sponsor assassination and transnational organized crime?
From the beginning, I was against placing 10 reservations to these two treaties, because we would receive criticism in the world that a country placed 10 reservations to join two neutral treaties that do not have the right of review and are strictly neutral.
It took a year to defend Iran's conditions for joining the CFT and Palermo for the FATF. Some people think that if these two treaties are ratified today, we should immediately get off the FATF blacklist, while the Financial Action Task Force invites the three blacklisted countries three times a year to defend our actions.
In general, the FATF has two approaches towards countries, including white, gray and black, and it says, first, put my recommendations into law, that we in Iran have passed the anti-money laundering and assassination financing law, which is exactly the same as the FATF recommendations, and second, implement these laws.
We were told that we had to give data to FATF with the approval of CFT and Palermo, which was a complete lie. It was said that if our case becomes normal at FATF, we should declare a certain group as an assassination, which was a complete lie.
🔹 We have emphasized many times that go read the documents, what FATF knows is assassination, this is the UN list that includes ISIS and al-Qaeda.