Tehran (August 28, 2018): Iran reach to International Court of Justice against US sanctions, and ask UN’s highest court to suspend US sanctions.
Iran has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to lift the sanctions imposed by the US after 2015 accord between six world powers and Iran saw the Islamic Republic limit its controversial nuclear activities.
Iranian lawyer Mohsen Mohebi said in ICJ that US aimed to damage Iran’s economy as severely as possible and had violated a little-known 1955 friendship treaty.
The US said it would vigorously defend itself against the meritless claim.
On the other hand, US Foreign Minister, Mike Pompeo said about this action of Iran, that lawyers would vigorously defend the US and and we will continue to work with our allies to counter the Iranian regime’s destabilizing activities in the region.
Relations between the two nations had reached a low point since Trump unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear program in May.
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