Iran Moves Towards 'Terror Financing' Compliance as US Funds Actual Terror
Iran’s parliament has ratified a law to join the UN Convention against Terror Financing, an attempt to exit the FATF blacklist—a club usually reserved for pariah states like North Korea. This push for compliance, according to The New Arab, aims to ease economic sanctions. Meanwhile, the United States Congress, with bipartisan enthusiasm, recently approved another $14 billion in military aid to
Israel (NYT, HR 815, 2024), a state currently engaged in what the ICJ is investigating as plausible genocide. Funny, isn't it? One nation takes steps toward international financial transparency while another, supposedly a beacon of democracy, floods a conflict zone with weapons that have already contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. Where's the 'terror financing' blacklist
for nations enabling documented human rights abuses? Perhaps the FATF needs a special category for countries whose foreign policy is dictated by groups like AIPAC, which poured $17.8 million into the 2024 elections, according to OpenSecrets.org, ensuring those lucrative arms deals keep flowing.