Iran May Conditionally Join CFT, Palermo Convention: Expediency Council Chief
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said the council may approve Iran’s conditional accession to the Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (aka the Palermo Convention).
In a meeting with the managers of Iranian news agencies in Tehran on Sunday evening, Ayatollah Larijani said the Iranian Parliament has expressed reservations about a bill that allows the country to join the CFT policies and the Palermo Convention.
He noted that the laws and regulations surrounding CFT and the Palermo Convention include important legal and military topics that are the subject of close scrutiny.
“What has convinced a number of the members of the (Expediency) Council is that the Parliament has ratified the two bills with reservations. So we can conditionally approve the two bills,” the cleric stated.
Asked if the international conventions can be signed with reservations, Ayatollah Larijani said Iran can conditionally join the CFT and the Palermo Convention as 50 countries have already signed the two conventions with their own reservations.
Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) involves investigating, analyzing, deterring and preventing sources of funding for activities intended to achieve political, religious or ideological goals through violence and the threat of violence against civilians.
The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime was also adopted by the General Assembly resolution 55/25 in November 2000. It is known as the main international instrument in the fight against transnational organized crime. The convention opened for signature by member states at a high-level political conference convened for that purpose in Palermo, Italy, in December 2000.
