Iran and the United States are fighting against the UN Supreme Court in August – The Siasat daily

The Hague: The UN Supreme Court said Thursday that it would hold hearings next month in a fierce battle between Iran and the United States after President Donald Trump reimposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic. ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will hold public hearings from Monday 27 to Thursday 30 August in the case "against Iran against the United States," the court said. 19659002] "Hearings will be devoted to the petition Tehran filed a complaint with the ICJ last week asking the judges to order the immediate lifting of the sanctions which, according to them, would cause" irreparable harm "." [19659002] Iran has maintained the reinstatement of the penalties, lifted as part of the historic agreement of 2015 aimed at suppressing Tehran's nuclear ambitions, violated a decades-old treaty.

Washington, in two phases, in August and November, would try to prevent European and foreign companies from doing business with Iran and blocking its oil sales abroad.

Iran argued in court that breaking a treaty of friendship and economic relations of 1955 concluded between the two countries before the Islamic revolution under the shah regime. But the two adversaries have not had official diplomatic relations since 1980.

The tribunal, created in 1946 in The Hague to settle disputes between nations, revealed Wednesday that its president, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, had made the unusual decision to write a letter on the case directly to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

He did not disclose the content, but stated that under his rules, the court could ask any party to "act in a manner to allow on the objections of the allies, Trump in May withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal signed between Tehran and the world powers in 2015.

He ordered the reimposition of the United States. sanctions that had been suspended in exchange for controls over Tehran's nuclear program, effectively preventing many multinational companies from doing business in Iran.

Four days of hearings on a previous complaint filed by Iran in October 2016 against the United States, which freezes about $ 2 billion of their badets abroad, are expected to begin on October 8, when the United States will argue that the court does not have the power to hear the case.

Agence France-Presse