CBS:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that the United States would be terminating a 1955-era treaty of amity with Iran that regulates economic and consular ties between the two countries. Pompeo called it a move that was "39 years overdue."
Ties between the two nations have been strained for decades but have come to a head since the Trump administration moved to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The administration has admonished Iran and the regime's leadership for its "malign behavior" and for pursuing nuclear ambitions.
The move to end the treaty comes after the United Nations' top court on Wednesday ordered the United States to lift sanctions on "humanitarian" goods to Iran that Mr. Trump re-imposed after pulling out of the nuclear pact. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) unanimously ruled that Washington "shall 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" as well as airplane parts, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf wrote.
The court said sanctions on goods "required for humanitarian needs... may have a serious detrimental impact on the health and lives of individuals on the territory of Iran."
Pompeo said Iran had brought a "meritless case" to the ICJ, alleging violations of the 1955 pact, and he suggested Iran wants to challenge the U.S. decision to pull out of the nuclear deal.
"Iran has attempted to interfere with the sovereign rights of the United States to take lawful actions as necessary to protect our national security and Iran is abusing the ICJ for political and propaganda purposes," said Pompeo.
Pompeo said in the meantime, the U.S. will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iranian people, but called on Iranian leadership to spend money on its own people, instead of "fomenting terror around the world."
"Those are dollars the Iranian leadership is squandering, they could be providing humanitarian assistance to their own people but have chosen a different path," he said.
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39 years too late! Can we deport the large community of IRI regime supporters freely grazing in the US?
I agree with ICW. This treaty should have been immediately terminated after those monkeys climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy and held diplomats hostage for the first time in the history of this planet.
ICW yes please. AO agreed. US too wrapped up in its fight against ICJ to argue the republic of murder and mayhem broke the treaty already?
As an aside we do have a track record of savagery against diplomats:
In 1829, an angry Persian mob surged into the compound of the Russian legation and after an hour-long battle with the embassy's Cossack guards, ransacked the place and killed the ambassador, Alexander Griboyedov.
Griboyedov's body was dragged through the streets and hideously mutilated. According to one historian's account, “he was later identified only by the deformity of the little finger on his left hand.”
You are absolutely correct dear Fozolie. Iran is the only nation / country in the world that has attacked embassies on numerous occasions. There was the U.S. diplomats, the Russian one that you mention, then there was an attack on the British embassy I blieve during the Qajars as well, where the British ambassador had to climb a tree to escape the mob. If I recall correctly, he may have been captured at the end and sodomized. Then there was the attack on the Danish embassy because of the Mohamed cartoons, the recent attack on the British embassy, and also the attack on the Saudi embassy. Disgraceful.
I had not heard the British one before, any more info please?
Getting back to the termination of this treaty, does it mean it will put an end to the US flirtation with the fleabags? Or is that wishful thinking?
I remember reading it somehwere a while back. It was a Bakhtiari tribe that I believe did it. But I couldn't find the source now. I Googled it, but no luck.