International Law and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of IranCase Study: Recommendations of FATF

The interaction of national legal systems with international legal order needs to be reviewed. This paper describes the state of the current international legal order in a generalized framework, focusing on one of the recent examples of these international components- the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as a “legal regime”- in the virtue of verifying the capacity of the Islamic Republic of Iran's national legal system to face this situation and evaluating the distinct principles of Iran's Constitution on the Islamic Consultative Assembly. In this way, the general pattern of the position of Iran's legal system is criticized. Accordingly, the exercise of parliamentary competence is possible and necessary concerning the deal with recommendations of FATF under the principles of 77 and 125 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.