Iran to court in The Hague for US sanctions

the hague - Iran has stepped to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in order to get US sanctions out of the table. The Islamic Republic states that the US violates a 1955 friendship treaty with the punitive measures. The countries were allies at the time. That changed after the Iranian Revolution.

The UN court has already called on the US not to disregard the final verdict. It is still unclear whether the Donald Trump government is responding to this. Washington said in a first reaction that the court is not competent to judge the case. Also, the relatively unknown treaty from 1955 does not relate to these kinds of issues.

The US instituted the sanctions after President Trump threw the nuclear deal with Iran in the trash. An Iranian representative told the court on Monday that Washington is trying to damage the Iranian economy as much as possible. He said that Tehran had tried in vain to find a diplomatic solution.

The Americans set out their legal arguments on Tuesday.