VOL. XLIV

No 37

10-September-2001

IRAN

Iran To SubmitAdditional Pleading Against US To ICJ For Wartime Oil Platform Damage

Iranintends to submit an additional pleading to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)in The Hague this month in its nine-year-old claim for damage to offshoreproduction platforms by the US navy during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. Iranclaims that during two naval actions in 1987 and 1988, US warships caused majordamage to three oil production complexes in the Gulf operated...