Interpreting the United Nations Security Council Resolutions by the Domestic Courts: The Judgment of the High Court of Singapore on the Iranian Nuclear Program

• Author: A.-H. Ranjbarian, A. Abedini & K. Rouzegari
• Pages: 409-410

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Amir-Hossein Ranjbarian,

∗

Abdollah Abedini,

∗∗

&

Khalil Rouzegari

∗∗∗

The scope of the maintenance of international peace and security has been increasingly

widened by the United Nations Security Council in response to actions taken not

only by the Member States but also in some cases by the individuals. In fact, a range

of actions and decisions were taken by the Security Council, approximately in the

late 1990s and after the so-called 9/11 attacks in the context of combating terrorism,

as well as in other contexts against the member States. In consequence, the affected

States and individuals had to seek redress from international or national courts

on different grounds such as violations of human rights. This has led the domestic

courts to develop novel jurisprudence. Thus, it is necessary to pay due attention

to the jurisprudence created by these courts. This paper is devoted to analysis an

Interpreting the United

Nations Security Council

Resolutions by the Domestic

Courts: The Judgment of

the High Court of Singapore

on the Iranian Nuclear

Program

∗ Assistant professor in international law at Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran (“UT”). LL.B/

LL.M. (UT), Ph.D. (Paris 13). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-8978.

∗∗ Ph. D. candidate in international law at UT and Lecture at Farabi College, UT. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-

3771-4870. This paper is extracted from my Ph.D. thesis at UT. The author may be contacted at: s_abedini_a@ut.ac.ir /

Address: Faculty of Law& Political Science, University of Tehran, Enghelab Ave., Tehran, Iran. Corresponding author.

∗∗∗ Ph.D. student in international law at Department of Law and Politics, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic

Azad University (I.A.U.) in Tehran and Lecture at Department of Law, Damghan Branch, I.A.U. ORCID: https://orcid.

org/0000-0002-3911-7797.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2014.7.2.05

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