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Iran orders US to pay compensation for slain nuke scientists
The Pioneer ^ | Friday, June 24, 2022 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/24/2022 3:47:30 AM PDT by Jyotishi

Tehran -- A court in Iran on Thursday ordered the United States government to pay over $4 billion to the families of Iranian nuclear scientists who have been killed in targeted attacks in recent years, state-run media reported.

The largely symbolic ruling underscores the escalating tensions between Iran and the West over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme, with negotiations to restore the tattered atomic accord at a standstill.

Although Tehran has blamed Israel in the past for slayings targeting Iranian nuclear scientists since a decade ago, Iran did not directly accuse its arch-foe Israel in its announcement.

Iran has not recognised Israel since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted the pro-West monarchy and brought Islamists to power. The court mentioned Israel only in saying the US supported the "Zionist regime" in its "organised crime" against the victims.

It's unclear how the court decision, like a raft of previous Iranian cases against the US as the two sides have engaged in a spiralling escalation of threats, would gain traction; there are no American assets to confiscate in the Islamic Republic.

Still, the court branch, which is dedicated to the review of Iranian complaints against the US, summoned 37 former American officials, including former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, as well as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Iran envoy Brian Hook and former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.

Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 and imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran that severed most of its oil revenues and international financial transactions.

President Joe Biden wanted to return to the accord, but talks have stalled in recent weeks over America's designation of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.

Meanwhile, Iran is enriching uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels under decreasing international oversight.

Earlier this month, Iran removed 27 surveillance cameras of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in what its director warned could deal a "fatal blow" to the nuclear accord.

The families of three nuclear scientists who had been killed in targeted slayings, along with one nuclear scientist wounded in an attack, filed the lawsuit in Tehran, the country's state-run IRNA news agency reported, without identifying the plaintiffs.

The court ordered that the US pay $4.3 million in total compensation, including fines.

Iran and Israel have been locked in a shadow war across the Middle East and its waters.

That conflict has escalated with the recent suspected targeted killings of Iranian nuclear scientists and military officials.

In late 2020, Iran blamed Israel for killing its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, with a remote-controlled machine gun while he was travelling in a car outside Tehran.

Iran also has placed sanctions on prominent American political and military officials for alleged "terrorism" and "human rights violations," in retaliation for the US assassination of Iran's top commander, Qassem Soleimani, two years ago.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911plot; assassination; humanrights; iran; iraq; irgc; islam; israel; khobartowersplot; lebanon; military; muslim; nuclear; obama; pompeo; qudsforce; terrorism; trump; uranium; usa; ussthesullivansplot; waronterror; yemen
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1 posted on 06/24/2022 3:47:30 AM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Joe’s writing the check as we speak.


2 posted on 06/24/2022 3:49:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jyotishi

Pallets of cash on their way...


3 posted on 06/24/2022 3:49:58 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Jyotishi
I've got an idea...

Bomb Iran

4 posted on 06/24/2022 3:52:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Jyotishi

Just as soon as you make Solemani pay for all the US Servicemembers that he enabled to be killed...

... oh, wait...


5 posted on 06/24/2022 4:57:42 AM PDT by sauropod (It's too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy cutting hair.)
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To: dfwgator

Was that specified on his cheat sheet?


6 posted on 06/24/2022 4:59:58 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Jyotishi

I order Iran to kiss my azz.


7 posted on 06/24/2022 5:10:04 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Jyotishi

As soon as Iran pays for the Beirut bombings of the US Marines and the US embassy.


8 posted on 06/24/2022 5:33:41 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Jyotishi

POUND SAND


9 posted on 06/24/2022 5:36:04 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Jyotishi

As Gen. Anthony McAuliffe so eloquently stated when the Germans demanded his surrender: “NUTS!”


10 posted on 06/24/2022 6:00:24 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Jyotishi

Why aren’t they suing Israel? It was the Mossad that offed these nuclear research maggots.


11 posted on 06/24/2022 6:05:46 AM PDT by dennisw
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Val Jarrett will instruct Brandon to pay the scum.

She’s Iranian and will profit handsomely from kickbacks.


12 posted on 06/24/2022 6:22:13 AM PDT by AFret. (.)
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To: mewzilla

Back in 1980, a lot of us were 120% on board with that. Bastards deserved it.


13 posted on 06/24/2022 6:28:58 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jyotishi

Payment should be made in plutonium, delivered to a designated nuclear research facility by a Tomahawk missile.


14 posted on 06/24/2022 6:53:37 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Jyotishi
The American singer Millie Jackson had the best response.
15 posted on 06/24/2022 6:58:06 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: LIConFem

Pallets of cash on their way

Did they ever stop ?


16 posted on 06/24/2022 7:08:27 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Jyotishi

We already paid with pallets of cash


17 posted on 06/24/2022 7:18:05 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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18 posted on 06/28/2022 6:42:12 AM PDT by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: nuke_road_warrior

Probably be a Jericho 3 missile, but yes.


19 posted on 06/28/2022 8:36:26 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: dfwgator

10% back to Hunter. Usual fee.


20 posted on 06/28/2022 8:43:27 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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