The U.S. and Iran were still friends on paper, but Donald Trump just put a stop to that

The U.S. officially quit a mid-20th-century friendship treaty with Iran, with which Washington has feuded for decades over accusations that Tehran sponsors terrorism and pursues nuclear ambitions. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday the termination of the U.S. and Iran’s 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights following Iran’s use of the document as justification to take the U.S. to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) over sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. The court issued an interim ruling earlier in the day ordering Washington to lift some of the economic restrictions, prompting Pompeo to formally end the little-known, long-defunct diplomatic initiative in a move he called “39 years overdue.” “Iran is attempting to interfere with the sovereign rights of the United States to take the lawful actions necessary to protect our national security, and Iran is abusing the ICJ for political and propaganda purposes,” Pompeo told reporters. “Their case, as you can see from the decision, lacked merit,” he added, despite Iran claiming a legal victory at a time when international opinion on the matter was weighing in Tehran’s favor. The August 1955 treaty came about when Iran was under the rule of… Read full this story

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