Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Allameh Tabatabaei University
Abstract
After the coming to an end of the Iran-Iraq war، the issue of payment of war reparations by Iraq must have been assessed by the Iranian government. The main outstanding issue in this paper is about the legal and political sides of this problem. A finding by the author، that intentionally continuous breach of international commitments is violation on agreed status quo in international Law today، which he calls it crimes against peace، makes Iraq responsible for the breach of the peace. He provides that restoration of Iran’s right to make up for its damages must be assessed by a specific legal mechanism. He concludes several issues from this review: Iraq is responsible for violating principles of the U. N. charter، committing crime of aggression، grave breach of international humanitarian Law، unilateral breach of the 1975 Algiers Accord، environmental pollution after the attacks on Iranian oil platforms. The procedure of the U. N. announcement، how should the assessment and payment of war reparations be decided.