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Alleged Violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights (Iran v. U.S.) (Judgment on Preliminary Objections) (I.C.J.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2021

Diane A. Desierto
Diane A. Desierto*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law and Global Affairs, and Faculty Director, LLM in International Human Rights Law, Notre Dame Law School, with joint appointment as full Professor at Keough School of Global Affairs, Faculty Fellow (Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, Kellogg Institute of International Studies, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Nanovic Institute of European Studies, Pulte Institute of Global Development), University of Notre Dame, United States. The author can be reached at ddesiert@nd.edu. See Diane A. Desierto, A Study in Contrasting Jurisdictional Methodologies: The International Court of Justice's February 2021 Judgments in Iran v. USA and Qatar v. UAE,” EJIL:Talk! (Feb. 15, 2021), https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-study-in-contrasting-jurisdictional-methodologies-the-international-court-of-justices-february-2021-judgments-in-iran-v-usa-and-qatar-v-uae.
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On February 3, 2021, the International Court of Justice delivered its judgment on preliminary objections in Alleged Violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America). The judgment rejected all of the United States’ preliminary objections, declared the admissibility of Iran's Application, and held that the Court has jurisdiction “on the basis of Article XXI, paragraph 2 of the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights of 1955.”

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International Legal Documents
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International Legal Materials , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 1 - 40
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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1 Alleged Violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights (Iran v. U.S.), Judgment on Preliminary Objections (Feb. 3, 2021), https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/175/175-20210203-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf [hereinafter Judgment on Preliminary Objections].

2 Judgment on Preliminary Objections, ¶ 114.

3 Alleged Violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights (Iran v. U.S.), Application Instituting Proceedings (July 16, 2018), ¶¶ 39–49, https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/175/175-20180716-APP-01-00-EN.pdf.

4 Judgment on Preliminary Objections, ¶ 31.

5 Id. ¶ 35.

6 Id. ¶ 37.

7 Id. ¶¶ 39–40.

8 Id. ¶ 53.

9 Id. ¶ 56.

10 Id. ¶¶ 76 and 82.

11 Declaration of Judge Tomka, ¶ 10.

12 Declaration of Judge Tomka, ¶¶ 6, 8.

13 Id. ¶¶ 87-88.

14 Id. ¶ 95.

15 Separate, Partly Concurring and Partly Dissenting, Opinion of Judge Ad Hoc Brower, para. 2.

16 Id. ¶ 98.

17 Id. ¶ 109.

18 Id. ¶ 110.

19 Id. ¶ 16.

20 Id. ¶ 81.

21 Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Qatar v. UAE), Judgment on Preliminary Objections (Feb. 4, 2021), ¶¶ 81–87, 115, https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/172/172-20210204-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf; Case Concerning the Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Geor. v. Russ.), Judgment on Preliminary Objections (Apr. 1 2011), ¶¶ 156–184, 187, https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/140/140-20110401-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf; Obligations Concerning Negotiations Relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marsh. Is. v. U.K.), Judgment on Preliminary Objections (Oct. 5, 2016), ¶¶ 42–59, https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/160/160-20161005-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf.