THE HAGUE: Lawyers for Iran told judges on Wednesday (Sep 16) at the United Nations' top court that by crippling Iran's economy, sanctions imposed by the United States in 2018 had violated a decades-old bilateral friendship treaty. In an earlier case involving frozen assets, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or World Court, ruled in 2019 that the 1955 Treaty of Amity could provide a legal basis for its involvement in an Iranian-US dispute. Lawyer Hamidreza Oloumiyazdi asked judges to reject the United States' argument that the court had no jurisdiction in this case. "The US measures disregarded the very foundation of international law," Oloumiyazdi said. "All that matters now for this US administration is whether its measures are succeeding in ruining the Iranian economy and the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iranians," he added. On Monday, lawyers for the United States demanded that the ICJ, which deals with disputes between states, dismiss the case brought by … [Read more...] about Tehran tells World Court US sanctions breach friendship treaty