Iran has every right to take court action against Washington after Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed “illegal” sanctions on Tehran, American writer and academic James Petras says, adding that the US “only believes in force and aggression.”
Last month, Iran filed a complaint at the UN’s top court, the Hague-based tribunal known as the World Court, asking it order the US to lift its recently re-imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
The United States objected on Monday to the lawsuit filed by Iran at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) .
Professor emeritus Petras told Press TV in an interview on Monday that the re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran indicates that “Washington has no intention of abiding by any international decision.”
He said that the Iranian government had every right to pursue the judicial process.
The US efforts to evade the…