Tehran Times - Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghadam, a member of the Expediency Council, has said that any talk about accepting the FATF (the Financial Action Task Force) is a distortion of the countrys power. Those who like the FATF should know this is a trap. Talking about accepting it is a distortion of the Islamic Republic of Irans power in countering ...

MNA - A member of Expediency Council Hojjatoleslam Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam said that Moscow and Beijing will voice their opposition to the extension of Iran arms embargo at UN Security Council. Speaking in an interview with Mehr News Agency on Tue., he noted that such an extension would be contrary to Resolution 2231 and that China and Russia ...

MNA A member of the Expediency Council, the body in charge of deciding on FATF-related bills, said Wed. that the Palermo bill is no longer on the agenda of the Council. Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam told Mehr correspondent on Wednesday that the one-year deadline for the Expediency Council to evaluate the Palermo bill against the countrys national ...

MNA The spokesperson for the Combatant Clergy Association said the national integrity, unity and resistance provide the most powerful response to the adversity and inappropriate rhetoric of the US. Hojatoleslam Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam reiterated Iran's policy of resisting the American pressure, stressing that the country neither wants talks ...

MNA A member of the Expediency Council, Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam, said Sat. the date for holding a session on reviewing Irans accession to the two FATF-related bills is still uncertain. Speaking to Mehr News correspondent on Saturday, Mesbahi Moghadam said the Expediency Council will not hold a session today to review the countrys accession ...

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MNA A member of the Expediency Council, Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam, said the country would not endorse the FATF-related bills as a prerequisite for the EUs trade mechanism INSTEX. Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam, a member of the Expediency Council, made the remarks before Tehran Friday prayers on March 8, adding after the US withdrawal (from Iran ...

MNA A member of the Expediency Council, Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam said on Fri. that the Council will mull over the Convention against the Funding of Terrorism (CFT) after determining the fate of UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, known as Palermo Convention in Iran. The bill on Irans accession to the International Convention ...

MNA The Expediency Councils Saturday meeting on joining the UN Convention on Transnational Crime (Palermo bill) ended without conclusion, leaving the fate of the bill unknown for at least two more weeks, a member of the council said. According to Gholamreza Mesbahi, the Council held a session today to study the fate of the controversial bill, but ...

MNA A member of the Expediency Council, Gholamreza Mesbahi, said the Council held a session today to study any possible connections between the four FATF-related bills and the EUs trade mechanism for Iran (INSTEX). Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam told reporters on Tuesday that the security and legal committees of the Expediency Council held a joint ...

MNA Member of Expediency Council (EC) Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam said on Sat. that the Council studied the outlines of the Palermo Convention Bill on Sat. Jan. 19. He made the above remark in an interview with IRNA, and said, it was stipulated that the judicial, political and security committees of the Council would further study the bill meticulously ...

MNA The Expediency Council has passed the final verdict on the amendment bill on combating money laundering, endorsing the FATF-related bill on Saturday. A member of the Expediency Council, Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghdam, told Mehr News correspondent on Saturday that the amendment bill on combating money laundering has been endorsed by the Expediency ...

Comments by four prominent state officials, namely the heads of the three branches of government and the chairman of the Expediency Council, dominated the front pages of the Iranian papers on Thursday. President Rouhanis optimism about the eventual conclusiveness of nuclear talks with the world powers; Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijanis comments in opposition ...

Berlin, Jun 28, IRNA -- German and Iranian lawmakers held talks in Berlin aimed at expanding parliamentary relations, Iranian MP Hojjatoleslam Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam told IRNA here Friday. Meeting with the head of the German-Iranian parliamentary group, Rolf Muetzenich, Mesbahi Moghadam said talks focused on boosting bilateral ties. Mesbahi ...