International Law Review

International Law Review

Domestic Courts Approaches in the Enforcement of the Security Council Sanctions on Iran:Case Study of Singapore, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Document Type : academic

Authors
Siamak Karamzadeh 1
Abdollah Abedini 2
1 Corresponding Author, Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Shahed University, Tehran,
2 Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Humanities Research and Development
10.22066/cilamag.2020.103852.1664
Abstract
In the pre-JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) era, there were numerous actions brought in certain domestic courts relating to Iranian persons due to sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council on Iran. Among these, reference can be made to the judgements issued by the courts of Singapore, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. These actions provided opportunity to the courts to deal with the issues raised in connection with the restrictions and impediments imposed under the UN Security Council resolutions and the related domestic rules. These judgements suggest how to use the legal mechanism in the national courts in the benefit of the Iranian parties. These cases with no precise statistics regarding the number of the actions, have not been thoroughly considered by the Iranian legal community. The jurisprudence produced through these cases might be of assistance to the Iranian persons which are active in commercial and governmental sections in figuring out the approach taken by various States in dealing with the legal disputes relating to sanctions imposed on Iran, and then taking them into account in their future legal relationship with other States’ public and private sections.
Keywords
United Nations Security Council
Sanction
Iran
Interpretation
Domestic Courts

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International Law Review
Volume 37, Issue 63 - Serial Number 63
October 2021
Pages 199-236

  • Receive Date 18 February 2019
  • Revise Date 16 June 2019
  • Accept Date 17 August 2019