US Pulls Out of 1955 Iran Treaty

• 10.04.2018, 11:24
•  America,  Near East,  World

Al Jazeera

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that the U.S. is terminating a 1955 treaty with Iran, after the United Nations' top court used that treaty to order the U.S. to ease some of its sanctions on the regime, Foxnews reports.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled earlier Wednesday that the U.S. must lift sanctions that affect the import of humanitarian goods and products and services linked to the safety of civil aviation. Iran had alleged that the sanctions breach the 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity, from when the two countries had good relations, that regulates and promotes economic and diplomatic ties between the two countries.

In his press conference, Pompeo said Iran's case was "meritless" and accused the country of "attempting to interfere with the sovereign rights of the United States to take lawful actions necessary to protect our national security and abusing the ICJ for political and propaganda purposes."

He then announced the U.S. would terminate the Amity treaty which formed the basis of Iran's suit against the U.S..