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Top UN court sides with Iran and rules US must roll back some sanctions
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/03/top-un-court-sides-iran-rules-us-must-roll-back-sanctions/
he UN’s highest court handed Iran a legal victory over the US on Wednesday when it ordered the White House to roll back some of Donald Trump's sanctions on Tehran.
Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled unanimously that parts of the sanctions the US imposed on Iran in May were illegal and must be removed.
The Iranian government hailed the ruling as proof that "Iran is in the right” but the US said it was not bound by the court's decision and would not ease sanctions.
Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, said he was "disappointed that the court failed to recognise that it has no jurisdiction to issue any order relating to these sanctions measures.”
The court ruled that the US must roll back sanctions that would hamper Iran’s ability to important medicine, food, and spare parts necessary for civilian airline safety.
In a 29-page ruling, the judges said that US sanctions could stop Iran importing humanitarian items and have “a serious detrimental impact on the health and lives of individuals on the territory of Iran”.
It also ruled that a US ban on spare airline parts had the "potential to endanger civil aviation safety in Iran and the lives of its users".
Mr Trump ordered a first round of punishing sanctions on Iran in May after he pulled the US out of the 2015 nuclear agreement earlier this year.
Iran petitioned the court in July, arguing that Mr Trump’s decision violated a 1955 treaty signed between the countries before they became arch-foes following the Iranian revolution in 1979.
Mr Pompeo announced Wednesday he was terminating the treaty in response to the ruling. “This is a decision, frankly, that is 39 years overdue,” he said.
The ICJ rules that the US must roll back any sanctions on Iran which would affect import of medicine, fo..
