Khamenei adviser calls US court ruling 'international stealing'
Iran has filed an official complaint against the US Supreme Court ruling that would allow families of terrorist attack victims to collect nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian funds.
After a US Supreme Court ruling that would allow families of victims of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut access to nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian funds in the United States, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs filed a formal complaint to the Swiss Embassy in Iran, which provides consular services to the United States.
The April 26 complaint called the US top court ruling an "explicit violation" of previous agreements between the two countries, US international legal commitments, judicial immunity and immunity of assets and property of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran also officially filed a complaint about a March ruling in a federal court in New York that Iran must pay victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington $10 billion. The complaint said that linking Iran to these attacks was “baseless” and “ridiculous” and that no Iranian national had participated in the attack. It also said the ruling “violates accepted international legal procedures based on the judicial immunity of governments.”
