The Judiciary Mission of the International Court of Justice against Political Performance of the Security Council in International Disputes

Subject Areas : Iranian Political Research

Morteza Ghahremani ¹ (Ph.D., Student, Department of Public International Law, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran)
Seyed Yaser Ziaee ² (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Qom, Qom, Iran)

Received: 2022-01-25 Accepted : 2022-06-15 Published : 2023-06-22

Keywords: international rights, Security Council, International court of justice, Judiciary Mission, international disputes, Political Performance, Legal Disputes Judiciary Politics,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study is to review the judiciary mission of the International Court of Justice against the political performance of the Security Council in international disputes. The research method is descriptive-analytic and the results showed that the court should never avoid pursuit of solving important political disputes just because they are in terms of political issues and aspects, even though there were no provable principles in international laws.

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