MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SHORT CUTS : EAST KURDISTAN – IRAN – U.S. Abandons Decades-Old Treaty With Iran

 

4 Oct 2018 The United States said it will withdraw from a 1955 treaty (NYT) that normalized relations with Iran hours after the International Court of Justice ordered it to lift restrictions that could prevent the delivery of humanitarian supplies. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the court case, in which Iran alleged the United States violated the treaty, “lacked merit.” – Read all https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/world/middleeast/us-withdraws-treaty-iran.html