Iran Press/Iran news: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said in a statement on Friday that majority of the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) members were not swayed by US, and some of its allies when voting on the continued suspension of anti-Iran measures.
According to Press TV, Ghasemi condemned the US delegation’s insistence that the body must end the suspension of anti-Iran measures, and described it as a result of Washington’s "radical and delusional policies."
Ghasemi also accused the US of trying to misuse its rotating presidency of the FATF to persuade other member states into blacklisting Iran yet again, with the help of Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime.
“The US has shown it is not a trustworthy member of the international community and is seeking to destroy all achievements of multilateralism through its unilateral moves,” Ghasemi said, urging FATF member states to take this important consideration into account when making future decisions.
Also Iran’s ambassador in London Hamid Baeidinejad said Friday that FATF’s extension of suspending anti-Iran measures revealed that Iran's Parliament and other institutes’ strives for standardization of banking and financial regulations were deeply noticed by the world.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has hailed a decision by FATF
After a meeting of its members, the Paris-based international watchdog (Financial Action Task Force) extend the suspension of its counter-measures against Tehran despite Washington’s efforts to get the Islamic Republic back into the body’s blacklist.
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