November 21, 2017
President Hassan Rouhani has presented two bills for making amendments to the current Law of Combating the Financing of Terrorism and the Law of Anti-Money Laundering.
According to the introductory section of both laws published on the official news portal of the administration, reforms to the CFT law are meant to better address the definition and inclusion of terrorism-related crimes, differentiate between people or organizations engaged in terrorism, define the geographical inclusion of prosecuting financing of terrorism within and outside the country and following up on crimes against international organizations without a representative office in Iran.
The reform measures aim to better define examples of national and international terrorist persons, groups and organizations by the Supreme National Security Council, and put in place more efficient regulations to confiscate assets and instruments of terrorism financing.
