Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic republic “will proudly bypass sanctions” by the United States that took effect on Monday targeting the country’s oil and financial sectors. “I announce that we will proudly bypass your illegal, unjust sanctions because it’s against international regulations,” Rouhani said in a televised speech. ...
Iran’s Guardian Council has rejected the bill on joining Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) convention. CFT bill is against the religious law, the Constitution and is ambiguous, the Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaie said in a Twitter message on Sunday. The CFT bill is one of the four ...