Iran's accession to the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism is Suspended
The Islamic Consultative Assembly today suspended consideration of the bill to accede to the United Nations Convention on the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism for two months.
This convention was formed seventeen years ago with the aim of encouraging governments and cooperation between them to cut off the financing of terrorist organizations and groups, and so far 187 countries around the world have joined it.
Fundamentalists opposed to Iran joining the Convention on the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism have expressed concern that joining the convention would undermine Iran's prospects for supporting regional allies such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas, groups that the United States and the European Union have designated as terrorist organizations.
Hardliners in the Islamic Consultative Assembly also fear that joining the United Nations Convention to Combat the Financing of Terrorism would jeopardize the status of a number of members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, including Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, who are on the US terrorist list.
Source: Voice of America
