MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : IRAN FINANCING TERRORThe Ineffectiveness of the FATF

By Noah Phillips May 10, 2020 – ISRAEL –  BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,557, May 10, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently added Iran to its Black List as a means of increasing pressure on the regime to stop financing terror. While this belated decision was a good move, it is unlikely that it troubled Tehran particularly. Iran has been on the Black List before and been removed from it despite its persistent state sponsorship of terror, which goes back decades. The plenary continues to ignore the terror financing of numerous other states as well as Iran, including Qatar and the Palestinian Authority, rendering its effectiveness minimal.