The Quarterly Journal of Judicial Law Views

The Quarterly Journal of Judicial Law Views

Preventing Terrorism by Combating Financial Resources

Authors
1 Faculty of Shahid Beheshti University
2 Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract
Terrorism is an offensive action which violates human rights and always invades to people’s rights. Given the high incidence of this type of global action and the widespread violations of human rights and peace and security, countering terrorism will be important. The existence of financial resources is an essential element of terrorism and Preemptive measures and their success in blocking financial aids to terrorists shows the importance of monetary resources in funding and managing terrorist groups. Financing is a necessary prelude for terrorism and without necessary funds the terrorist groups are not capable of executing their illegitimate ends. The importance of this component is such that the terrorist groups carry out numerous legal and illegal activities in line with the funding they need. Given the fundamentals of the role of financial resources in the occurrence of terrorism, these resources play a decisive role in the fight against terrorism and by fixing preventive measures on this important pillar and by creating a barrier to the financing of the terrorists, an important issue is to prevent and reduce terrorism successfully. Therefore, preventive measures can be taken in the forms of banking and non-banking measures to counter the financing of terrorism and subsequent counteraction to terrorism.
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