US to pull out of convention to block Iran, Palestinians from suing them at ICJ

3 October 2018, 8:14 pm

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Officials tell The Associated Press that the Trump administration will withdraw from an amendment to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations that Iran or others, notably the Palestinians, could use to sue the US at The Hague-based International Court of Justice.

A White House announcement is expected.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier that the US was withdrawing from the 1955 Treaty of Amity after Iran “groundlessly” brought a complaint with the ICJ challenging US sanctions on the basis that they were a violation of the treaty.

The ICJ accepted Iran’s argument earlier in the day, though Washington has insisted it will continue with sanctions.

— AP