Eurasian Group Welcomes FATF Members' Acceptance of Progress on Several Items of Iran's Action Plan

Citing Iran's Financial Intelligence Centre, Hadi Khani, secretary of Iran's High Council for Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, thanked members of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering (EAG) for technical help in handling Iran's file at the FATF, in a meeting with its executive secretary Sergey Teterukov on the sidelines of a gathering in Moscow. The meeting was reported by Thursday, 5 November 2026 (14 Aban 1405).

According to the same report, the EAG official expressed satisfaction at the consensus among FATF members to accept progress on a number of items in Iran's action plan, and stressed the need to speed up completing it. He said EAG members are ready to provide technical assistance to Iran. Iran has been an EAG observer since June 2016 (Khordad 1395), and its pursuit of full membership is at the stage of domestic decision-making. The report does not say which items were accepted or what Iran's status on the FATF lists is.