Iran Press/Iran news: Tehran's interim Friday prayers leader Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi called on the government to rely on the internal resources instead of foreign countries in face of economic war waged against the country.
“They [the enemies] in the economic warfare want to monitor our sources of income and spending to see how and where we earn money and who we have relations with and who we have economic relations,” the senior cleric said.
He added that they want to 'disarm us and seek to accuse us based on the documents we have signed before.'
The senior cleric further said that signing the nuclear deal (JCPOA) did not only lift the sanctions but also added to them and increased the economic hardships of the people.
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Established in 1989, the FATF is an intergovernmental body comprising more than 190 member states. The objectives of the FATF are to set standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system.
Since 2008, the FATF has put Iran on its blacklist. Previously, only Iran, North Korea, and Cuba were included in the FATF blacklist. Cuba, however, was removed from the list after a while.
In 2016, FATF removed Iran from its blacklist and suspended its countermeasures against the Middle Eastern state, providing Tehran with the opportunity to reform the laws and structures of its banking system. 103
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