{"id":13183,"date":"2018-08-29T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2018-08-29T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:31:05","slug":"iran-tells-un-court-time-running-out-under-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13183","title":{"rendered":"Iran tells UN court \u2018time running out\u2019 under US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1363691\/middle-east\" readability=\"42\">\n<p>\nTHE HAGUE: Iran told the UN\u2019s top court Wednesday that \u201ctime is running out\u201d for its people as they suffer economic turmoil that Tehran blames on renewed US sanctions.<br \/>Iran was making its closing arguments in a challenge to the sanctions at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.<br \/>US President Donald Trump reimposed the sanctions after pulling out of a multilateral 2015 accord in May.<br \/>Iran has asked the court to order the United States to lift them.<br \/>US lawyers have retorted that the sanctions are necessary to protect international security.<br \/>They said economic mismanagement is at the root of Iran\u2019s woes and that the ICJ \u2014 set up in 1946 to rule in disputes between countries \u2014 does not have jurisdiction to rule on Iran\u2019s demand.<br \/>Washington reintroduced some sanctions this month, targeting financial transactions and imports of raw materials, cars and aircraft.<br \/>The measures have driven international companies to abandon projects in Iran.<br \/>A second wave of US measures is due to hit Iran in early November, targeting its vital energy sector including oil exports.<br \/>\u201cFor the Islamic Republic of Iran, time is running out,\u201d Iran\u2019s representative Mohsen Mohebi told the ICJ\u2019s judges on Wednesday.<br \/>\u201cThe lives of millions of people residing in this country are already deeply suffering from the sanctions reinstated by the United States&#8230; and will further suffer as these sanctions are expanded and aggravated.\u201d<br \/>Tehran is basing its claim on the obscure 1955 Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations, signed with the United States long before Iran\u2019s Islamic revolution.<br \/>Despite the treaty, the two countries have not had diplomatic ties since 1980.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE: Iran told the UN\u2019s top court Wednesday that \u201ctime is running out\u201d for its people as they suffer economic turmoil that Tehran blames on renewed US sanctions.Iran was making its closing arguments in a challenge to the sanctions at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.US President Donald Trump reimposed the sanctions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}