The court explains how the controversial EU law operates to bar EU persons from complying with US sanctions on Iran and Cuba.

On 21 December 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) released its long-awaited judgment in Case C-124/20. The case addressed questions that had arisen in legal proceedings between Bank Melli Iran (Bank Melli) and Telekom Deutschland GmbH (Telekom) that a German court had referred to the CJEU for clarification. The CJEU is the EU organ whose interpretations of EU acts is binding on EU Member States.