By: Kayhan Int’l
The decision of the highest court of the United Nations in rejecting US demands to dismiss the case brought by Iran against Washington for ending sanctions the Trump administration re-imposed in 2018 after breaching the JCPOA on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear programme, could be considered a legal victory for the Islamic Republic.
Although the International Court of Justice based in Hague, Netherlands, is yet to hear the case fully in order to give the final verdict, the rejection of the US arguments by its president, Abdul-Qawi Ahmed Yusuf, is indeed a welcome development.
Iran had filed the case in July 2018 a few months after Trump pulled out of the 2015 international agreement signed in Geneva and threatened other countries with sanctions if they don’t cut off Iranian oil imports.
Iran, which considers the illegal US sanctions as economic terrorism, has rightly pointed out that these sanctions breach the 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates and promotes economic and consular ties between Iran and the US.
It is worth noting that The International Court of Justice had earlier as well in October 2018 given a verdict in favour of Iran, saying in a preliminary ruling that the US should "remove any impediments arising” from re-imposition of sanctions to the export to Iran of medicine and medical devices, food and agricultural commodities and spare parts and equipment necessary to ensure the safety of civil aviation.
The roguish regime of Trump, however, had ignored the UN court’s ruling and created hurdles for Iran, including denial of the needed medicine, and more importantly had criminally cancelled the multi-billion contract inked by Boeing during the administration of Barak Obama for selling a new fleet of aircraft, along with the spare parts.
Rulings by the International Court of Justice, which settles disputes between nations, are final and legally binding, but this does not mean that Iran should expect a quick verdict following Wednesday’s decision, since it is normal for cases to drag on for several years before the final conclusion is reached.
In the meantime, the new administration in the White House, if not an enemy of the Islamic Republic, is certainly not a friendly one.
President Joe Biden who during his presidential campaign had vowed to rejoin the JCPOA has now begun to drag his feet and seems reluctant to life Trump’s illegal sanctions.
His Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has raised a number of unlawful demands infringing upon Iran’s sovereignty, including the right to develop missile technology and help neighbouring states fight terrorism, which the Islamic Republic has firmly rejected.
The US is the greatest destabilizing force in the region, and ever since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, has shown blind hostility towards Iran and the Iranian people.
Although the International Court of Justice based in Hague, Netherlands, is yet to hear the case fully in order to give the final verdict, the rejection of the US arguments by its president, Abdul-Qawi Ahmed Yusuf, is indeed a welcome development.
Iran had filed the case in July 2018 a few months after Trump pulled out of the 2015 international agreement signed in Geneva and threatened other countries with sanctions if they don’t cut off Iranian oil imports.
Iran, which considers the illegal US sanctions as economic terrorism, has rightly pointed out that these sanctions breach the 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates and promotes economic and consular ties between Iran and the US.
It is worth noting that The International Court of Justice had earlier as well in October 2018 given a verdict in favour of Iran, saying in a preliminary ruling that the US should "remove any impediments arising” from re-imposition of sanctions to the export to Iran of medicine and medical devices, food and agricultural commodities and spare parts and equipment necessary to ensure the safety of civil aviation.
The roguish regime of Trump, however, had ignored the UN court’s ruling and created hurdles for Iran, including denial of the needed medicine, and more importantly had criminally cancelled the multi-billion contract inked by Boeing during the administration of Barak Obama for selling a new fleet of aircraft, along with the spare parts.
Rulings by the International Court of Justice, which settles disputes between nations, are final and legally binding, but this does not mean that Iran should expect a quick verdict following Wednesday’s decision, since it is normal for cases to drag on for several years before the final conclusion is reached.
In the meantime, the new administration in the White House, if not an enemy of the Islamic Republic, is certainly not a friendly one.
President Joe Biden who during his presidential campaign had vowed to rejoin the JCPOA has now begun to drag his feet and seems reluctant to life Trump’s illegal sanctions.
His Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has raised a number of unlawful demands infringing upon Iran’s sovereignty, including the right to develop missile technology and help neighbouring states fight terrorism, which the Islamic Republic has firmly rejected.
The US is the greatest destabilizing force in the region, and ever since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, has shown blind hostility towards Iran and the Iranian people.
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