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Iran To Sue U.S. For Allocating $2 Billion To Terror Victims

Iran has accused the United States of theft and is planning to sue after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that American terror victims should receive $2 billion from frozen Iranian funds. The Islamic Republic has been blamed for terrorist bombings in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. A 1983 attack on a Marine barracks in Beirut was attributed to Hezbollah, an Iranian affiliate group with popular local support, in revenge for Israeli atrocities in the war. Both Hezbollah and Iran deny the claim. RT reports: “We will soon take the case of the $2 billion to the international court,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a Tuesday speech in Kerman, southeastern Iran, as quoted by Reuters. “We will not allow the United States to swallow this money so easily.“ In April, the US Supreme Court ruled that American victims of terror attacks in Beirut and Saudi Arabia were eligible to receive damages from Iranian central bank assets that had been frozen, upholding a 2012 law passed by Congress permitting the payments. During his speech, Rouhani said Iran would “take this case to the International Court [of Justice] in the near future and will not spare any effort towards the restoration of the nation’s [...]