Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam, a member of the Expediency Council, made the
remarks before Tehran Friday prayers on March 8, adding "after the US’
withdrawal (from Iran nuclear deal), Europeans promised they would provide 12
solutions for their trade with Iran, but so far they have not even taken one
step in this direction and have not even implemented one single solution.”
He went on to add, "9 months have passed since then, and they have only created
a channel called INSTEX, which is not even a financial channel but one for
making purchases. Europeans should take note that we will not be deceived by
them and endorse the FATF-related bills, because in this case we will consider
the Establishment’s benefits, not anyone’s whims.”
Mesbahi Moghadam then referred to FM Zarif and President Rouhani’s positive
position on endorsing the FATF-related bills, and their promise that joining the
anti-money laundering watchdog, if not making Iran’s trade situation better,
would not make it any worse.
"I would say that our situation will actually become worse by acceding to the
two conventions (CFT and Palermo). Is it really in our best interests to reveal
our foreign trade to countries such as the US, Saudi Arabia or the Zionist
regime?”
He leveled more criticism on EU’s trade mechanism for Iran, adding "Europeans
are asking us to put our oil revenues into INSTEX in exchange for their selling
us food and medicine. They also want us to endorse the FATF-related bills in
return for the channel. However, we must not be deceived by them.”
Source:MNA