Iran News: A senior member of Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Seyyed Hossein Naghavi Hosseini in an exclusive interview with Iran Press on Tuesday said: "12 objections out of 22 Guardian Council objections were related to the content of CFT convention and according to Guardian Council if these objections can't be rectified or removed, CFT convention is against Islamic republic of Iran's constitution."
Because the Iranian government has no say in the content of CFT, it is possible that Parliament and government won't be able to reach an agreement to solve Guardian Council's objections and the bill will be send to the Expediency Discernment Council for a final decision.
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Naghavi Hosseini said: In the last meeting of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Parliament which was held on Sunday 18 Nov 2018, foreign and intelligence ministers, Guardian council spokesman, some members of the Expediency Council and experts from the Majlis (parliament) research center attended the meeting and discussed the apparent contradictions between CFT and Iran's Constitution, Interpretations of the Iranian Government and Supreme National Security Council.
According to Guardian Council, contents of CFT convention don’t observe any right of reservation and interpretation declaration for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the CFT content.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in an official decree, signed into law the CFT amendment bill which was passed by the parliament and approved by the Guardian Council on August 11, 2018.
Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) involves investigating, analyzing, deterring and preventing sources of funding for terrorist activities. The CFT bill is one of four bills connected to The Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
On 7 October 2018 after some objection to CFT, the Iranian parliament after reviewing and examining again voted to approve the amended version of the convention of Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), but the Guardian Council rejected the bill on Iran’s accession to the convention against funding of terrorism (CFT) on Nov 04, 2018, send the bill back to Parliament for further discussions and amendments. 205/103
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