![]() law allows Americans to sue nations identified by the U.S. court cases have been filed against Iran, particularly over attacks like the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Iran a year later executed eight men sentenced to death over the attack. The assault shocked Tehran, which largely has avoided militant attacks in the decades after the years-long tumult surrounding the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The June 2017 attack in Tehran marked the first time the Islamic State's extremists could penetrate tightly controlled Iran and carry out of a massive assault. A U.S.-led coalition and separately Iran-allied Shiite forces ultimately dislodged the extremists, who became notorious for their gruesome killings of prisoners and attacks abroad. The Islamic State group, a Sunni extremist group born out of al-Qaida's offshoot in Iraq, declared itself a caliphate across the vast territory it held in Iraq and Syria in 2014. While later calling his comments “sarcasm” based on Obama’s decision to earlier withdraw troops from Iraq, conspiracy theorists across the Middle East, including Iran’s supreme leader, seized on the remarks. It cited “reliable news” and unidentified speeches by American officials as its evidence.ĭuring his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump described Obama as the “founder” of the Islamic State group. is based on the central and main role of the government and officials of this country in organizing and directing terrorist groups,” the IRNA report said. ![]() “The reasons for attributing these crimes to the United States. It said the case before Branch 55 of the Tehran Court of Justice came from the families of three people killed in the June 2017 attack. ![]() Bush and Barack Obama, the CIA, the American military's Central Command, the Treasury and others. The IRNA report described those named in the lawsuit as including the U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday. judges have issued rulings that call for billions of dollars to be paid by Iran over attacks linked to Tehran, as well as those detained by Iran and used as pawns in negotiations between the countries. However, the court ruling comes after the United Nations' highest court in March rejected Tehran’s legal bid to free up some $2 billion in Iranian Central Bank assets frozen by U.S. The assault saw gunmen attack Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s mausoleum and the country's parliament, starting an hourslong siege. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency, in reporting the decision, offered no direct evidence to support the court's allegation that American officials had any part in the June 2017 attack that killed at least 18 people and wounded 50 others. DUBAI – An Iranian court issued a $312.9 million judgment against the United States over a 2017 Islamic State-claimed attack on Tehran, authorities said Wednesday, the latest judicial action between the nations amid their decadeslong enmity.
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