US Court ruling orders Iran to pay $11 billion to 9./11 attack victims

The Foreign Ministry of Iran has summoned the ambassador of Switzerland who represents American interests in Tehran to protest recent US court ruling against the Islamic Republic.

According to Press TV, the general director of Iran Foreign Ministry for American Affairs Mohammad Keshavarz-Zadeh slammed US decision to seize the assets of Iran Central Bank in an American bank. This is due to the violation of Washington's bilateral agreements with Tehran, including the 1955 Treaty of Amity, and the US international legal commitments on the judicial immunity and inviolability of the assets and properties of the Islamic Republic.

Keshavarz-Zadeh also protested a US court ruling that has held Iran liable for damages in the 9/11 terror attacks. The ruling allows the families of Marines and victims of other attacks that courts have linked to Iran to seize Iran's frozen $2 billion assets held in New York's Citibank belonging to the Central Bank of Iran which has been blocked under US sanctions. 

During the meeting held last Tuesday April 26, the director general of Iran submitted two official notes to Giulio Haas, the Swiss Ambassador to Tehran, in protest at two recent rulings that the US courts have issued against Iran, El Akhbar has learned.

Such issues stemmed when the US Supreme Court upheld the congress and President Barack Obama's actions. The court ruled out to hold Iran financially responsible for the 1983 bombing that killed 214 US service members at their barracks in the Lebanese capital, Beirut and last month, Big Story has learned.

In addition to that, a federal judge in New York accused Iran of having been involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks without providing any evidence, calling the allegations baseless, absurd, and contrary to accepted practices of international law which guarantees the government's judicial immunity.. The court in New York even ordered Tehran to pay $11 billion in compensation to families of 9/11 terrorist attack victims.

With that being said, Haas stated that he will immediately notify the US Department of State and report back the results to Iran's Foreign Ministry.

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Iran, US Supreme Court, Iran Central Bank, Iran Foreign Ministry for American Affairs, Swiss Ambassador of Tehran

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