Posted on 07/17/2018 10:27:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Iran has filed a lawsuit against the United States alleging that Washington’s decision in May to impose sanctions after pulling out of a nuclear deal violates a 1955 treaty between the two countries, the International Court of Justice said on Tuesday.
A State Department official said the application was without merit and the United States would fight it in the court.
“While we cannot comment on the specifics, Iran’s application is baseless and we intend to vigorously defend the United States before the ICJ,” a State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters. […]
Iran said in its filing that Trump’s move “has violated and continued to violate multiple provisions” of the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Rights, signed long before the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted the U.S.-allied shah and triggered decades of hostile relations with Washington. …
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‘55?
Reinstate the Shah and we’ll talk.
Um.
US to ICJ: Pound sand, and take the UN with you.
It’s interesting that they’d pull out the Treaty of Amity (between the US/Iran). About a year after the Shah came to power, August 1955, this treaty was signed to give some trade recognitions (among other things) to Iran. And now, this is the instrument to build a case around...with the Shah dead now almost 40 years.
So?
File suit in the International courts that Islam is antithetical to democracy.
I’d rather they said the international court was without standing over US affairs and told them to shove off.
Well, his son, the Shah is long dead...thanks to Jimmy Carter, and so is Iran.
Yep, exactly...
Obama paid their legal fees for a few centuries.
How about taking i ran to the international court for their financing terrorism throughout the world?
How about Bibi and Israel nuking hell out of i ran?
The Iranian Revolution in 1978/79 dissolved the 1955 treaty.
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