MP Urges Tehran to Take Legal Action against Sanctions at Hague Court

A senior Iranian legislator stressed the necessity for legally pursuing the case with the western sanctions against Iran through the international courts in the Hague and other world bodies.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran should sue the West for its unjust sanctions and pressures against Iran at the international bodies and the Hague,” member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Abbasali Mansouri told FNA on Monday.

“Since we are also paying for the budget of these (legal) centers, naturally, we should be able to use their leverages,” Mansouri said, adding that the western countries are usually referring to the Hague.

Yesterday, Head of the country’s Trade Unions Council announced that Iran’s private sector plans to file a lawsuit at the international bodies against the West’s illegal sanctions against Iran.

“Intensification of illegal sanctions against our country should not have any impact on the supply of goods since these sanctions are more politically-tainted and as they (the westerners) have announced these sanctions should have just included embargos on the oil and banking sectors,” Qassem Nodeh Farahani told FNA on Sunday.

But, he said, the sanctions have directed pressure on the supply of goods to Iran and “thus, the country’s Trade Unions Council will lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organization and the United Nations to defend the people’s demand”.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed the West’s demand as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path.