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La Cour internationale de justice (CIJ) s'est dite compétente, le 3 février, pour recevoir la demande de Téhéran d'annuler les sanctions américaines à son encontre rétablies par l'administration de Donald Trump.
Analyse de Claude Blanchemaison, expert en relations internationales.
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- Iran has achieved a legal victory when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided to dismiss the US objections to Iran's bid to lift US nuclear-related sanctions, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday...
Earlier
in the day, the ICJ issued a ruling rejecting the United States'
objections to its jurisdiction over Iran's bid to overturn US
nuclear-related sanctions that were re-introduced by the US
administration of former President Donald Trump. The ruling came as new
US President Joe Biden has expressed readiness to rejoin the nuclear
agreement should Iran return to full compliance.
"The @CIJ_ICJ just dismissed all US preliminary objections in the case brought by Iran over unlawful US sanctions.
Another
legal victory for Iran following 3 Oct. '18 Order. Iran has always
fully respected int'l law. High time for the US to live up to int'l
obligations," Zarif wrote on Twitter...
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*** Iran filed the case in July 2018 a few months after then-President Donald Trump said he was pulling the US out of a 2015 international agreement over Iran''s nuclear program and would re-impose sanctions on Tehran. Washington also threatened other countries with sanctions if they don''t cut off Iranian oil imports by early November.
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In its case, Iran alleges that the sanctions breach a 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates and promotes economic and consular ties between the two countries
ReplyDeleteThe United Nations'' highest court ruled Wednesday that it can hear a case brought by Iran against the United States in a bid to end sanctions the Trump administration re-imposed in 2018 after pulling out of an international deal aimed at curtailing Tehran''s nuclear programme.
DeleteLawyers for the United States argued at hearings last year that the case should be thrown out by the International Court of Justice for lack of jurisdiction and admissibility.
However, the court''s president, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said that judges rejected US arguments.