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Challenging Washington in the WTO's Dispute Resolution Mechanism would likely succeed.
Francis Boyle urges Iran to sue Washington, Britain and France at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if they refuse to negotiate directly and continue making belligerent threats.
Add Israel and make it a quartet. It menaces the region.
In early July, Boyle told Press TV if someone refuses "to talk to you, sue them, and then they have to talk to you."If Washington won't engage in direct negotiations, "Iran should sue....at the World Court, protect itself, and then by means of the World Court proceeding, force negotiations which Iran can do."
If crisis conditions escalate, Iran should also sue Britain and France, said Boyle. It should request an "emergency hearing," and use it to prevent war or other belligerent acts.
A restraining order could be gotten. It would prevent "any type of blockade....to prevent the imposition of further economic sanctions....and pursuit of" additional ones.
Blockades are acts of war. Multiples rounds of sanctions targeting vital state functions have similar effects if pushed too far. Ones in place now violate fundamental human rights.
They're illegal. Iran should sue. Unlike the International Criminal Court, ICJ rulings are more measured and just. It called Israel's Apartheid Wall illegal.
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