A court in Tehran, the capital of Iran, recently ruled that the U.S. government and multiple U.S. individuals or entities, including former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and George W. The attack on Khomeini’s mausoleum paid a total of nearly $313 million in compensation. In 2017, the Iranian parliament building and the mausoleum of the late supreme leader Khomeini were attacked by terrorists on the same day, killing at least 17 people and injuring 52.
IRNA and the website of the Iranian Ministry of International Affairs and Human Rights reported that on April 26, local time, the 55th branch of the Tehran Court, based on complaints from the families of the three victims and six injured in the 2017 terrorist attack, The above ruling was made.
U.S. entities and individuals charged in this case include the U.S. government, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, Central Command and its former commander Tommy Franks, the CIA, the Treasury Department, weapons manufacturer Locke Sid Martin and American Airlines Group.
According to the court’s ruling, these American entities and individuals need to pay the dead and injured and their families US$9.95 million for economic losses, US$104 million and US$199 million for moral compensation and punitive damages, totaling nearly US$313 million.
The court stated in its report that the U.S. government was found guilty based on “statements by senior U.S. officials regarding the U.S. government’s primary role in organizing and directing terrorist organizations, reliable news and information released by the U.S. media, speeches by U.S. officials, and Books on ‘The CIA’s Role in Creating Terrorist Organizations'”.
The report also stated that the ruling “is designed to prevent further violations of international law by the United States, including supporting the Daesh (also known as ‘Islamic State’) terrorist organization to carry out terrorist attacks that have killed innocent people and caused material, moral and moral damage to their families. Economic losses”.
However, Al Jazeera pointed out that none of the named U.S. entities or individuals held any assets that could be seized by Iran, and the court ruling did not say how compensation would be enforced.
According to previous reports by CCTV News, on June 7, 2017, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Tehran , the capital of Iran. The Iranian parliament building and the mausoleum of the late Supreme Leader Khomeini were attacked by gunmen and suicide bombers, killing at least 17 people and 52 People get hurt. The terrorist organization “Islamic State” subsequently claimed responsibility for the serial attacks.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a statement saying that the United States and Saudi Arabia are “behind the black hands” of the attack. A week before the attack, former U.S. President Donald Trump and the Saudi leader met to “prove that they were involved in this barbaric operation.”
Saudi Foreign Minister al-Jubeir immediately denied the accusation, however. In his statement after the terrorist attack, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani did not attribute the terrorist attack to the Saudi government.
Source : m.guancha.cn
