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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Iran calls US ‘outlaw regime’ for pulling out of amity treaty
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed the United States as an “outlaw regime,” after Washington said it was withdrawing from a 1955 accord with Tehran following a court ruling.
“Today US withdrew from an actual US-Iran treaty after the ICJ (International Court of Justice) ordered it to stop violating that treaty in sanctioning Iranian people. Outlaw regime,” Zarif writes on Twitter.
US abrogated JCPOA -a multilateral accord enshrined in UNSC Resolution 2231- arguing that it seeks a bilateral treaty with #Iran. Today US withdrew from an actual US-Iran treaty after the ICJ ordered it to stop violating that treaty in sanctioning Iranian people. Outlaw regime. https://t.co/soi0CGOhO0
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) October 3, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is terminating a 1955 treaty between the two countries after the UN’s top court ruled against Washington’s sanctions policy towards Tehran, in a case which referred to the decades-old accord.
— AFP
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