<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Iran has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the United States' reimposition of sanctions, the foreign ministry said today.</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on the ministry's website that the complaint was registered yesterday. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The goal is "to hold the US accountable for its unlawful re-imposition of unilateral sanctions, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The complaint came in response to Washington's decision in May, to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on Iran. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tehran says the action violates international obligations, including the 1955 US-Iran Treaty of Amity — an agreement signed well before Iran's 1979 revolution, but which is still invoked in ongoing legal battles. </div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>