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Iran's FATF gridlock spawns 'death threats'

An Iranian official claims to have received death threats over the FATF-related bills currently being debated by the Expediency Council.
Ansari and Nabavi, members of Iran's top legislative arbitration body the Expediency Council, speak to media in Tehran.  Majid Ansari (L) and Morteza Nabavi, members of Iran's top legislative arbitration body the Expediency Council, speak to the media in Tehran October 18, 2004. The Expediency Council, which recently overturned a key plank of the constitution to allow large-scale privatisations, said it would apply a ceiling to banking privatisation keeping at least one-third of shares in the hands of the g

Iran’s Expediency Council, the body tasked with settling disputes between the parliament and the Guardian Council, is currently debating two contentious bills that have divided the Iranian political landscape, resulting in a call for a national referendum to end the dispute.

The Expediency Council has three more weeks to make a decision on Iran’s ratification of a Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) bill and also accession to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, often referred to as the Palermo Convention. The bills have been passed back and forth between the parliament, which approved them, and the Guardian Council, which has kept finding faults with the bills.

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