Payback Time: Iran to Sue US for 63 Years of Sanctions

[Aramagedon]

Payback Time: Iran to Sue US for 63 Years of Sanctions

on May 16, 2016 | 8:44:54

The Iranian parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill requiring the government to sue the US for the damage the country suffered as a result of the US’ hostile moves over the past 63 years, IRNA news agency reported.

The bill calls on the government to take legal action against the US government in an international court.
The vote followed the release of newly declassified documents containing details of the CIA-orchestrated ouster of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh 60 years ago.

Iran is also preparing international legal action to recover nearly $2 billion that the US Supreme Court has ordered to be paid as compensation to

American victims of terror attacks, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.

“We will soon take the case of the $2 billion to the international court,” Rouhani said in a televised speech.

“We will not allow the United States to swallow this money so easily,” the president said to a crowd of thousands in the southeastern city of Kerman.

Iranian MPs also demanded compensation for the moral and material damage the country suffered during its 1980-1988 war with US-backed Iraq, which claimed the lives of 223,000 Iranian soldiers.

http://realiran.org/payback-time-iran-to-sue-us-for-63-years-of-sanctions/

 

[Aramagedon]

Iran demands compensation from U.S. over CIA-backed 1953 coup

on May 18, 2016 | 9:51:14

The Iranian parliament wants the U.S. to compensate the country for damages from a series of events dating to the 1953 coup that increased the power of the pro-American shah.

The parliament on Tuesday passed a bill requiring its government to demand compensation from the United States for “spiritual and material” damages.

Also Tuesday, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council voted to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the U.S. over last month’s Supreme Court ruling that approved confiscation of Iranian assets.

The cases reflect Iran’s frustration with the pace of integration into the global trade and banking community since some international sanctions were lifted in January. Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, last month accused the United States of creating “Iranophobia” to slow economic progress.

The compensation bill does not determine a monetary amount for the damages, the Islamic Republic News Agency reports. The CIA has acknowledged directing the 1953 coup, which drove out Iran’s democratically elected prime minister during a bitter dispute over control of oil. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi remained in power until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, months before the start of the iconic hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

The parliament is also seeking compensation for, among other things, 17,000 victims of assassination, the “martyrdom” of 223,600 soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and more recently for damages for “blocking, confiscating or seizing of assets belonging to Iranian government, organizations or public and state-owned organizations and officials of Iran.”

A series of international boycotts have battered the Iranian economy. Last year, Iran reached an agreement with the United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France and Germany to limit its nuclear program to peaceful activities in return for lifting crippling international sanctions.
The deal did not end U.S. sanctions on other Iranian activities, however, such as its support for terrorism, developing ballistic missiles and human rights violations. And last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that families of victims of a 1983 terrorists strike in Lebanon linked to Iran can collect reparations from $2 billion in Iranian assets frozen in U.S. banks.

That ruling is the basis for Iran’s complaint to the International Court of Justice. Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said bringing a complaint against the U.S. at The Hague was just one way Iran will pursue the case. He said unexplained “overt and covert political” efforts also would be pursued, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.

USA Today

http://realiran.org/iran-seeks-money-from-u-s-over-1953-coup/

 

[raptor22]

It would cost Americans hundreds billion $ .... but the point is how to get the money ...

 

[haman10]

It would cost Americans hundreds billion $ .... but the point is how to get the money ...

I think we should ask the court to freeze US assets around the world

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

No offence, but this is simply wishful thinking on Iran's part lol. Iran won't receive a single dime from the US government.

 

[Gold Eagle]

No offence, but this is simply wishful thinking on Iran's part lol. Iran won't receive a single dime from the US government.

Money is not the only case. Whole this, is to show the world that who really has to pay the compensation.

They confiscate 2 billion $ of Iran's assets, in compensation for Americans died in terrorist attacks, Iran doesn't have any connections to! Meanwhile, when you look at what they have done to Iranians in the last two centuries, you would realize who's the one who should pay compensation...

 

[Tripoli]

This is more symbolic than realistic.

 

[raptor22]

I think we should ask the court to freeze US assets around the world

Which court dear Haman dare to do so? reminds me of Ahmadinejad attempts to compensate "allies" 'cause of their ww2 crimes against Iranians + occupation of Iran ... what happened?

 

[Steven Abar]

Does America actually have access to 2 bill of Iranian assets or can it just not be paid?

 

[21 Dec 2012]

All right, and if by some miracle some court somewhere grants Iran claims/damages/blah, who'll enforce it?

 

[yavar]

this took 36 years but at end U.S lost and paid up .
it will take time but at end we get back

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...Sv8hpTHu9_M9uTyYxpXOLQ&bvm=bv.124272578,d.ZGg
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...Sv8hpTHu9_M9uTyYxpXOLQ&bvm=bv.124272578,d.ZGg
U.S. to pay Iran $1.7 billion in legal settlement

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/17/politics/us-pays-iran-1-7-billion/