{"id":17285,"date":"2018-10-04T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17285"},"modified":"2018-10-04T02:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:24:34","slug":"pompeo-says-iran-is-origin-of-threat-to-us-missions-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17285","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo says Iran is origin of threat to US missions in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nJEDDAH\/THE HAGUE: Iran failed on Wednesday to persuade the UN\u2019s highest court to overturn punishing US economic sanctions that have brought the country\u2019s economy to its knees.\u00a0 The court ordered the US to lift only those measures that affect imports of medicine, food and civilian aircraft parts, leaving most of the new sanctions regime in place.<\/p>\n

\nFurther penalties aimed at Iran\u2019s energy sector, including the crucial oil trade, come into effect on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n

\nUS President Donald Trump reimposed the sanctions in May after withdrawing from Tehran\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.<\/p>\n

\nIran had challenged the move in a case filed in July at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.<\/p>\n

\nThe US described the court\u2019s ruling on Wednesday as a defeat for Tehran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed out that the court had not ruled more broadly against US sanctions, and in any case the US already exempted humanitarian goods.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe court\u2019s ruling today was a defeat for Iran. It rightly rejected all of Iran\u2019s baseless requests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nPompeo accused Iran of \u201cabusing the ICJ for political and propaganda purposes,\u201d and announced that the US was ending a friendship treaty with Iran signed more than 60 years ago.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThis is a decision, frankly, that is 39 years overdue,\u201d he said. \u201cGiven Iran\u2019s history of terrorism, ballistic missile activity and other malign behavior, its claims under the treaty are absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe ICJ unanimously ruled that Washington \u201cshall remove by means of its choosing any impediments arising from the measures announced on May 8 to the free exportation to Iran of medicines and medical devices, food and agricultural commodities\u201d as well as airplane parts,\u00a0judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf said.<\/p>\n

\nThe court said sanctions on goods \u201crequired for humanitarian needs… may have a serious detrimental impact on the health and lives of individuals on the territory of Iran.<\/p>\n

\n\u201d?US sanctions on aircraft spare parts also had the \u201cpotential to endanger civil aviation safety in Iran and the lives of its users,\u201d the ruling said.<\/p>\n

\nThe ICJ rules on disputes between United Nations member states. Its decisions are binding and cannot be appealed, but it has no mechanism to enforce them.<\/p>\n

\nThe Treaty of Amity with Iran, signed in 1955 and ratified by the US Senate a year later, lays out practicalities for unlimited economic relations and consular rights between the two countries.<\/p>\n

\nThe US withdrawal will have no practical effect, since the two countries no longer have diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n

\nHowever, Iran has repeatedly quoted the treaty in previous attempts to press other claims against the US, and used it to justify its appeal to the ICJ. Oubai Shahbandar, a Syrian-American analyst and fellow at the New America Foundation\u2019s International Security Program, told Arab News the UN \u201cperhaps ought to focus more on enforcing Security Council resolutions on the proliferation of Iranian ballistic missiles throughout the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nShahbandar said: \u201cOnce President Trump\u2019s directed sanctions take full effect on the Iranian oil sector by November, Tehran is going to face the specter of economic calamity. \u201cThe International Court of Justice should also take Tehran to task for the continued illegal detainment of US hostages like Robert Levinson, whose family has been waiting 11 long years to gain his freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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