Published on 7 Jul 2016
Iran’s ambassador to the UN has slammed the seizure of Iran’s assets by the US as a political decision. Gholamali Khoshrou made the remark in an address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday. He said Washington’s move is a clear example of abusing banking and financial networks for quote-false and unsubstantiated claims to pressure Iran. Khoshrou said Tehran is committed to using all possible means at its disposal, including referring the case to International Court of Justice, to recover its assets. In April, the US Supreme Court ruled that some two billion dollars worth of Iran’s frozen assets be granted to families of the victims of the 1983 bombing at the US Marine barracks in Beirut. Iran denies any involvement in that attack, stressing that the money belongs to the country’s Central Bank.
Iran Files Lawsuit against US over Illegal Seizure of $2Bn Assets
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Alwaght- Iran has filed a lawsuit against the US at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanding compensation over the seizure of $2 billion worth of the country's assets by a top American court.
Delivering a speech to a gathering, Iran’s president said that Iran had filed the lawsuit with the ICJ a day earlier, vowing that his administration will pursue the case to its end, Press TV reported.
Hasan Rouhani called the verdict by the American court as illegitimate, saying that the case of American nationals killed in Lebanon has nothing to do with Iran.
“It is not clear what the Americans were doing in Lebanon and how is the case related to Iran,” Rouhani said, vowing that Iran will never keep silent on the issue and that legal action will continue until the sum and all related compensations are retrieved.
The US Supreme Court Recently ruled that some $2 billion from frozen assets of Iran, money had to be turned over to the American families of the people killed in a 1983 bombing in Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran.
The money, which belongs to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), had been blocked under US sanctions before the court ruling.
Tehran has denounced the seizure of the frozen assets as “highway robbery,” vowing that the Islamic Republic will retrieve the sum anyway.
http://alwaght.com/en/News/57861/Iran-Files-Lawsuit-against-US-over-Illegal-Seizure-of-$2Bn-Assets
Hoaxes 101: Reagan Losing 241 at Beirut in 1983 Didn't Happen No More
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October 23rd, 1983. Ronald Reagan was President of the United States.
What stood out then, particularly on television, was the toll of 241 dead at Marine BLT Barracks at Beirut Airport. Yet on the 30th Anniversary last week, in 2013, nothing appeared on television to commemorate those losses. Not a word on network news or the commentary shows.
These were revenge killings; for Muslims, the term "retaliation" is more appropriate. In all, four truck bombs killed 398 people to take revenge for months of Ronald Reagan using the offshore guns of the U.S. Navy to shell Lebanese villages. Those bombardments killed more than a thousand people, slaughtering Druze and Muslims indiscriminately. The technology for the bombs was provided by Iran. There, for the Iran-Iraq War, Reagan had reversed Jimmy Carter's Executive Order and taken to supplying material support for Saddam Hussein. This despite Saddam's use of nerve gas to kill tens of thousands of Iranians, including civilians.
"Teach them a lesson" from Reagan in the Oval Office had produced unanticipated consequences.
Corporate media avoid all mention of the Beirut, Lebanon "peacekeeping" invasion -- despite that the CBS program 60 Minutes is taking time tonight to replay the Benghazi attack and street riot that killed 4 on September 11, 2012.
No comparisons allowed.
