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Iran Decries Supreme Court Ruling In Favor Of Terror Victims As ‘Theft’
Source: Huffington Post
Iran Decries Supreme Court Ruling In Favor Of Terror Victims As ‘Theft’
04/22/2016 06:45 pm ET
Cristian Farias
Legal Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post
The Iranian government on Thursday condemned a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued earlier this week that sided with thousands of victims of terrorism who turned to the courts for compensation after winning judgments against Iran.
Hossein Jaber Ansari, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, compared the decision — which would allow victims to collect billions in assets from Iran — to “theft.”
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In 2012, Congress passed a law that instructed courts to award nearly $2 billion in frozen assets that Iran held in a New York bank to families and survivors of the 1983 Beirut bombings and other acts of terrorism the U.S. blamed on Iran.
Bank Markazi, Iran’s central bank, challenged the law all the way to the Supreme Court, claiming it violated the Constitution’s separation of powers because Congress and the president were intruding on the judiciary’s independence.
In a 6-to-2 vote, the Supreme Court rejected the Iranian bank’s argument, asserting that “Congress acted comfortably within the political branches’ authority over foreign sovereign immunity and foreign-state assets.”
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04/22/2016 06:45 pm ET
Cristian Farias
Legal Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post
The Iranian government on Thursday condemned a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued earlier this week that sided with thousands of victims of terrorism who turned to the courts for compensation after winning judgments against Iran.
Hossein Jaber Ansari, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, compared the decision — which would allow victims to collect billions in assets from Iran — to “theft.”
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In 2012, Congress passed a law that instructed courts to award nearly $2 billion in frozen assets that Iran held in a New York bank to families and survivors of the 1983 Beirut bombings and other acts of terrorism the U.S. blamed on Iran.
Bank Markazi, Iran’s central bank, challenged the law all the way to the Supreme Court, claiming it violated the Constitution’s separation of powers because Congress and the president were intruding on the judiciary’s independence.
In a 6-to-2 vote, the Supreme Court rejected the Iranian bank’s argument, asserting that “Congress acted comfortably within the political branches’ authority over foreign sovereign immunity and foreign-state assets.”
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iran-supreme-court-terror-ruling_us_571a66f5e4b0d912d5fe8054
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