29 Mar 2024
Monday 27 August 2018 - 15:02
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Iran hauls US before intl. court over 'illegal' sanctions

Iran hauls US before intl. court over


Press TV - The International Court of Justice has begunhearing a lawsuit brought by Iran against new US sanctions ordered by the Trump administration.

Iran last month lodged a complaint with the Hague-based tribunal, arguing that the sanctionsviolate the terms of a 1955 friendshiptreaty between the two countries.

The country opened a lawsuit Monday demanding the UN's top court order the suspension of the renewed US sanctions.

Tehran has calledon the United Nations court to order the immediate lifting of the sanctions, and demanded compensation for damages incurred in their wake.

President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran in May and pledged to reimpose the most restrictive sanctions on the country.

Washington reinstated the first batch of sanctions in early August and willre-impose the second batch in November which will primarily be meant to undermine Tehrans oil exports.

The United States lawyers will present their arguments on Tuesday. They are expected to argue that the ICJ should not have jurisdiction in the dispute.

The oral arguments, essentially a request by Iran for a provisional ruling, will last for four days, with a decision to follow within a month.

The ICJ was set up in 1946 to resolve international disputes. Its rulings are binding buton rare occasions they have beenignored by certain countries, chieflythe United States.

The US will respond formally in oralarguments on Tuesday, reportedly arguingthat the United Nationscourt should not have jurisdiction in the dispute.

USlawyers will reportedly claim thatthefriendship treaty signed before the Islamic Revolution in 1979is no longer valid and that the sanctionsWashington has levied against Tehran, do not violate it anyway.

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