UN’s highest court to hear Iran sanctions case against US
The Hague-based International Court of Justice will consider an Iranian lawsuit filed after the United States withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed economic sanctions.
The United Nations’ top court ruled Wednesday that it has the jurisdiction to consider a case brought by Iran challenging sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.
A majority of the 16-judge panel rejected US objections to the three-year case, which seeks the overturn of crippling economic sanctions. International Court of Justice presiding judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf said Wednesday that the Hague-based court "finds consequently that it has jurisdiction ... to entertain the application filed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif praised the ruling as “another legal victory for Iran.”
“Iran has always fully respected int'l law. High time for the US to live up to its int'l obligations,” Zarif tweeted Wednesday.
