US terminates 1950s treaty with Iran after court orders ease in sanctions
The United States is officially terminating a 1955 treaty with Iran after an international court issued a ruling based on the treaty this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday.
"I'm announcing that the United States is terminating the 1955 Treaty of Amity with Iran," Pompeo said at a press briefing. "This is a decision frankly that is 39 years overdue."
It is unclear what practical effect terminating the treaty will have, given that the United States already lacks diplomatic relations with Iran. But coupled with harsher rhetoric on allegations of Iranian threats to the United States in Iraq, Wednesday's announcement follows the pattern of the Trump administration upping its pressure on Iran following President Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear accord in May.
Pompeo's announcement came hours after the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nation's highest court, ordered the United States to lift some sanctions against Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods and products.
Iran had brought the complaint to the court, sometimes called the World Court, based on the 1955 Treaty of Amity, a pre-Iranian Revolution accord that regulates and promotes economic and consular ties between the two countries.
Tehran charged that President Trump's decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions violated the decades-old treaty.
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But Iran is the one making threats. 
