Explain the need for structural factors affecting the challenges of combating money laundering in the Iranian banking system

The fight against money laundering as a universal policy is on the agenda of all countries and parliaments. To create sustainable conditions and economic transparency, combating the phenomenon of money laundering is necessary. This issue is a specific issue of the country in international banking operations and interbank brokerage. The application of infrastructure approach factors, including all the effective aspects of the anti-money laundering mechanism, is of great importance. In this study, in order to identify the challenges in this area and achieve a model that includes a set of infrastructural factors in the fight against money laundering, in the qualitative part, the criteria raised by experts through face-to-face interviews and citing international standards and multi-stage coding, Content analysis, and fuzzy Delphi method and in a small part of the questionnaire and factor analysis technique and in fitting the model, SRMR the index has been used. The research findings indicate that the observance of infrastructure indicators in accordance with international standards by the banking system promotes the position of Iranian banks at the international level and limits money laundering through the banking system.