After UN Top Court Rules In Favor Of Iran, Pompeo Terminates Decades-Old Treaty

• After UN Top Court Rules In Favor Of Iran, Pompeo Terminates Decades-Old Treaty
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  The drums of war are beating over Iran and Syria as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday morning responded to the United Nations’ top court ordering the US to lift sanctions on “humanitarian” goods to Iran. Pompeo made a series of threatening statements targeting Iran as well as Syria, which also comes after the latter received delivery of Russian S-300 anti-air defense missiles early this week.
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  Pompeo said in his State Department press briefing, “I’m announcing that the United States is terminating the 1955 treaty of amity with Iran. This is a decision that is 39 years over due.” 
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  He was referencing a 1955 “friendship treaty” or so-called Treaty of Amity which had been established long before the 1979 Islamic Revolution brought the Ayatollahs to power. 
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