IRAN V USA
September 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN INTERNATIONAL legal dispute between the United States and Iran over the destruction of Iranian oil platforms in the Gulf in 1987 and 1988 by US military forces is about to enter its 10th year, with International Court of Justice judges trying to decide whether the attack was a breach of a 1955 treaty.Washington had that year signed a Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Rights with the Iranian monarchist regime that was deposed by the 1979 Islamic revolution. Despite the resulting turmoil, the treaty was never abrogated and so after ...
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