The UN’s top court has ordered the United States to lift the trade sanctions it imposed on Iran in humanitarian aid and aviation.
The International Court of Justice’s decision, which was adopted unanimously, was seen as a victory for Iran after President Donald Trump’s move to take his country out of the 2015 international nuclear deal.
Under the ICJ’s definition, “humanitarian” goods can refer to food and medicines. The ruling is binding and cannot be appealed, but the court has no means of enforcing it.
During four days of hearings in late August, Tehran had argued the US has breached a “friendship treaty” between the two countries that was signed in 1955 — before Iran’s Islamic revolution.
