Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said on Monday the government would lodge a legal suit against the United States officials in Iran who has imposed sanctions over the nation as the precursor to actions in the international courts.

According to Reuters news reports, while delivering a speech which was broadcasted live on state-owned TV, Rouhani said the US sanctions had created several difficulties including a weaker rial currency that fed into higher inflation.

Washington has reimposed sanctions over Tehran after US President Donald Trump chose to abandon Tehran’s 2015 nuclear accord last year’s May.

Rouhani said he had ordered the country’s justice and ministries of foreign affairs “to file a legal case in Iranian courts against those in America who designed and imposed sanctions on Iran”. He added, “These sanctions are a crime against humanity.”

Iranian complaints about sanctions in the international courts have occasionally succeeded.

Rouhani said if the Iranian court finds US officials as suspect, Tehran will pursue the case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

“The Americans have only one goal: they want to come back to Iran and rule the nation again,” Rouhani said.

He said the government has managed to “put a brake on the fall of rial” but the balance did not return to the international currency market.

 

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