Gist of the News
According to the Tower Magazine on June 29, 2014:
On Tuesday the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to seize Iran‘s internet domain (.ir) and IP addresses in order to recover more than $1 billion in damages that the Islamic Republic owes for its sponsorship of global terror.
Introduction
Let us start this News & Analysis with the following paragraph taken from Céline Lafontaine‟s book titled „Le Corps-Marché‟ published by Édition du Seuil in April 2014 (at page 246):
“Un article du Monde intitule »Médicament: épidémie de pénuries«, paru en novembre 2013, tirait la sonnette d‟alarme sur le fait que la course aux profits qui gouverne l‟industrie biopharmaceutique a maintenant des répercussions directes sur l‟accès aux traitements pour certains patients au sein même des pays développés.”
Introduction
One of the most complicated fields of law is the law of sanctions. It would be almost impossible to handle the legal issues related to the sanctions imposed on Iran without understanding the existing and the invented interactions between the international law, the EU law, the US law, and the law of Iran. We have tried to look at few aspects of these interactions in this News & Analysis.
