The President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, has used his address to the United Nations General Assembly (hereinafter: UNGA) to state that his nation will not develop nuclear weapons. This declaration, made in New York, directly addresses the international focus on the Iran nuclear program and occurs within the context of sustained economic sanctions against the...
The Background The main problem that the functioning of international law faces is that all state actors have the same legal status without being subject to the power of a superordinate entity. Grounded in the principle of territorial sovereignty, every nation has an independent legal standing, which is not only desirable to ensure the minimum...