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April 22, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/world/middleeast/iran-accuses-us-of-theft-in-2-billion-court-ruling-for-terror-victims.html?ref=middleeast

After Court Ruling for Terror Victims, Iran Accuses U.S. of Theft

(New York Times) Rick Gladstone - Iran reacted furiously on Thursday to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Iran's central bank must pay nearly $2 billion to American victims of the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, calling the ruling thievery. The ruling will, at least theoretically, allow the families to obtain compensation from Iranian central bank assets that have been impounded. A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, said the court's ruling on Wednesday "amounts to appropriation of the Islamic Republic of Iran's property."

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