Time running out for Iranians, regime says in court over sanctions challenge

Iran says ‘time is running out’ for its people as they suffer economic turmoil that Tehran blames on renewed US sanctions.

“For the Islamic Republic of Iran, time is running out,” Iran’s representative Mohsen Mohebi says closing arguments in a challenge to the sanctions at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

An Iranian family walks past the shuttered window of the closed offices of a travel agency showing the logos of various air lines in the capital Tehran on August 24, 2018. (AFP/ STRINGER)

“The lives of millions of people residing in this country are already deeply suffering from the sanctions reinstated by the United States… and will further suffer as these sanctions are expanded and aggravated.”

US lawyers have retorted that the sanctions are necessary to protect international security.

— AFP

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