TEHRAN – The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has cast doubt upon the view that jointing the Convention on Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) may go without problems for Iran, calling it unnecessary to join such a convention.
Tehran Times: Ayatollah Khamenei: No reason for Iran to join FCT
“There is no reason why we should accept for their good points something that we do not know where it leads and even know to contain some problems,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a meeting with parliamentarians on Wednesday.
“Big powers draft such treaties according to their interests and expediency. Then governments which are aligned with them, or fear them, or follow them, ratify these conventions in their own countries.”
“Then if an independent country like the Islamic Republic rejects it, they attack it and say why it does not ratify it while 150 countries already have,” the Leader said, Fars reported.
He nevertheless underlined that “some of these treaties have positive points… The solution is that the Majlis defines rules of its own. For example a law on fighting money laundering; a law on fighting terrorism.”
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Update #1: Khamenei objects Iran’s joining anti-terror treaty (Al Arabiya)
Update #2: Iran's Khamenei says 'no need' to join global agreements (AFP)
WNU Editor: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei just killed his own country's campaign to be removed from the blacklist of states who cannot or will not prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The following analysis is spot on .... Iran's supreme leader just torpedoed his country's best chance to get off the terror financing blacklist (Toby Dershowitz and Saeed Ghasseminejad, Business Insider).
4 comments:
I find it interesting that they didn't just sign in, in hopes to still secretly be able to do it. Hmm
the iranian are smart , they know even if they sign , they will not be remove from the list . So they will be expected to abide by it while at the same time get nothing from it ( learn from history )
Actually, anonymous, all they have to do is sign or not sign but pledge to do so at done future date and they'll get everything they wanted and then some. By not being more reasonable would seem to be an incredibly stupid decision.
Of course America does, at present, have a POTUS who sees through Iran's crap. It's unknown how long this will last.
Even with this Iran has very powerful and influential allies who can easily overwhelm the US and POTUS should they opt to do so.
All they have to do is be somewhat reasonable or at least pretend to do so. Iran is exhibit A in how someone has a fabulous hand and misplays it.
The latest play in the 'War of Terror' designed to promote the innocence of foreign intervention by armed forces. This note accompanied my notice of your article on my list of posts. * Terror : Trademarked b.s. term designed to ignore incursions by uniformed armed forces in countries other than their own in favour of demonizing those who do not have access to WMD and 'conventional' equipment such as tank and aircraft equipped as bombers - or drones doing the same
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