Iran to pay $1.46 billion judgement for hostage, torture of former FBI agent in 2007

Wear TV (FL) ^ | October 5th 2020 | Carolyn Cerda

[BeauBo]

A record-breaking ruling for the family of Bob Levinson, a former FBI Agent who vanished while in Iran 13-years ago. Thursday, a U.S. judge ruled Iran must pay Levinson's family $1.46 billion, the largest judgement for a case of this kind...

Levinson disappeared in 2007 while working as a CIA contractor in Iran. His family immediately called on (Atty. David) McGee, who was Levinson's friend, to help bring him home...

Earlier this year, Levinson's family announced they were convinced the husband and father of seven was dead. In a statement, they said the judgement was the "the first step in the pursuit of justice."

"This judgement is the first step in the pursuit of justice for Robert Levinson, an American patriot who was kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable suffering for more than 13 years. He was the greatest man we have ever known, and he should be alive today - home with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Instead, he died in Iranian custody, and our family will never be whole again. Until now, Iran faced no consequences for its actions. Judge Kelly's decision won't bring Bob home, but we hope it will serve as a warning against further hostage taking by Iran. We thank the court for its consideration in the case, and we hope no other family ever has to go through the living nightmare our family has gone through."

McGee says the work to get Iran to pay the judgement has just began. It's a process that he believes could take years. And, he insists he's holding onto hope that his friend may still be alive.

[semimojo]

Iran to pay...

Sure they will.

[piasa]

To: nuconvert
A former press attache of the Iranian Embassy in Washington, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Tabatabai was shot dead by David Belfield, an African-American Muslim.
——(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...

7 posted on 9/29/2012, 1:38:41 AM by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
Salahuddin aka David Belfield aka Hassan Abdulrahman

8 posted on 9/29/2012, 1:56:04 AM by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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[sockmonkey]

*** We don’t torture and murder spies if that is what you are driving at. ***

Could you clarify “we”?

[freedomlver]

Drone strikes kill more civilians than anything. This ruling may open the door for compensation for all of the civilian casualties and their families. Not a good idea IMO.

[Fedora]

In the months before the election of Barack Obama in 2008, Mr. Deripaska turned to a lobbyist with Democratic connections, Adam Waldman, who served in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton. Mr. Waldman earned $40,000 a month to help the oligarch with visa issues, as well as with business matters like aluminum trade talks and an unsuccessful bid to buy European operations from General Motors. Mr. Waldman helped him arrange various trips, including to attend a Wall Street Journal-sponsored summit meeting of top business executives in Washington. He also later arranged meetings between Mr. Deripaska and George Soros, the wealthy Democratic donor, to discuss anticorruption efforts in the mining industry in Guinea, where Rusal is a major player, according to people familiar with the meetings. Hoping to show that he could be useful to the United States, Mr. Deripaska used his connections and resources at one point in a thwarted effort to help Washington win the release of a hostage in Iran. In the weeks before the 2016 election, Mr. Deripaska rebuffed an approach from the F.B.I., which was seeking his help in the early stages of the inquiry into Russian meddling. . .: Andrew Higgins and Kenneth P. Vogel, "Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. Sanctions" (New York Times, 11/04/2018)

[piasa]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034563/posts

[piasa]

To: nuconvert
The Iranians would have little or no interest in Levinson and would have deported him or traded him for the five Iranian “diplomats” we captured in Kurdistan in 2007. That didn’t happen, would have if the Iranians had him. They don’t.
Levinson testified against (1998) and had been pursuing Sergei Mikhailov, the most powerful Russian mafia boss in the world. Mikhailov is widely known for silencing witnesses and investigators. Mikhailov is deeply involved in cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting in Iran and has many operatives/soldiers there.

Levinson definitely went into harms way when he went to Iran. These Russians are the wrong people to meet and they get even.

7 posted on 1/13/2009, 11:21:31 PM by gandalftb (An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last......)
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[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Try the name Daoub or something like that re the suspect. Also try “Donald Cox”, Black Panther Party leader as a prime suspect in the Tabatabai assassination.

More to this story than anyone knows. I’ll try to fill in some details when you check out the two names I gave you.

[Vermont Lt]

Might as well be a “gazillion” dollars. Same chance of collecting a penny.

[Vermont Lt]

Sure we don’t. Because we publicize every time we catch a spy.

[Marinario]

Obama and Kerry gave the money away to Iran. Illegally.

And the bloody money went and goes to Hezbollah, Quds force, Houthis butchery and intrnational spy operations...

[Don W]

Well, I think that THIS is the Iranian reaction.

[mass55th]

"MANY alleged freepers at the time, and since: “It was their money anyway.”"

My argument against them getting the money was that it wasn't theirs. It was the government of the Shah of Iran's money. They overthrew the Shah, and set up their own government. The pukes Obama paid weren't in power at the time the money was paid, and had no right to it.

[jacknhoo]

“The rotting pile of Musloid Halfrican dog squeezins.”

___________

That’s a keeper.

[Does so]

“Obama and Kerry gave the money away to Iran. Illegally.”

...and just in time...!

[SamuraiScot]

confiscation via force of some Iranian Asset somewhere in the world. A loaded tanker might be enough to satisfy the judgment.

Perfect!

[piasa]

Thanks for that addition

[piasa]

Speaking of oligarchs/mafia involved in tobacco... Levinson went to Iran reportedly on behalf of British American Tobacco...

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[piasa]

Suspects:

Mohammad Besari and Ahmad Khazai

[piasa]

Suspects:

Mohammad Baseri and Ahmad Khazai of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security