Iran Asks UN Court to Lift US Sanctions ‘Besieging’ Its Economy
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Lawyers says sole aim of Trump administration's renewed measures are to bring their country 'to its knees'
By Middle East Eye
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Iran opened a lawsuit on Monday demanding the UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), order the suspension of renewed US sanctions which it says are devastating its economy.
The Islamic Republic says US President Donald Trump‘s decision to reimpose sanctions over its nuclear programme aims to bring it “to its knees” and is in breach of a 1955 friendship treaty.
Sanctions had been lifted under a 2015 multilateral agreement in return for Iran committing not to pursue nuclear weapons. In May, Trump announced that the US would abandon the deal.
Then last month, his administrati...