World Antiterrorism Monitor Calls on Member States to Sanction Iran

(New York Times) Maria Abi-Habib and Salman Masood - The Financial Action Task Force, a Paris-based monitoring group, voted on Friday to keep Iran on its blacklist for failing to tackle terrorism financing. The FATF had given Iran a February deadline to approve antiterrorism legislation. France, Britain and Germany had tied a new channel for trade with Iran to its compliance with FATF rules.