Financial Tribune - To get out of the dreaded blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force, Iran does not need to start from scratch or pluck stars from the sky, says a former Iranian diplomat.

�The door is open for Iran to come out of the FATF blacklist� it only needs to resume where it had stopped,� Kourosh Ahmadi was quoted as saying by IRNA.

He referred to Iran�s joining in Palermo and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) conventions as a way out of the blacklist.

Apart from the mentioned conventions, Iran has to implement five more recommendations, which Ahmadi said �are mainly technical and legal issues to which Iranian authorities have no objection�.