EXCLUSIVE: For the first time, the United States will sanction foreign judges and a court for gross violations of human rights, as it targets Iran’s Revolutionary Court system for the execution of a 27-year-old wrestler and other abuses, according to a U.S. official. “These so-called 'revolutionary courts' are not what anyone in the United States would recognize as a court. "They take orders for their verdicts from the ayatollahs and they make a mockery of justice.”The execution prompted swift international condemnation. To authorize these sanctions, Pompeo determined that the Iranian Revolutionary Court system does not function like a normal court system, according to a U.S. official. The U.S. withdrew from the deal in 2018 and the countries remaining in the agreement deny the U.S. can force those UN sanctions against Iran.

Source: Fox News September 24, 2020 13:32 UTC