Tehran has been ordered by a US court to pay more than $6 billion to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, despite the fact that most of the plane hijackers were Saudi nationals, and no direct link was ever found to Iran.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in New York found Iran, the country’s central bank, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps liable for the deaths of more than 1,000 people in the September 11 attacks. As a consequence, District Judge George Daniels ordered Iran and its entities to pay over $6 billion in compensation to the victims’ families.
The default judgment seeks compensation of $12.5 million per spouse, $8.5 million per parent, $8.5 million per child, and $4.25 million per sibling. The US could potentially retrieve the sum from billions of dollars in Iranian assets that were frozen in the US and Europe over the years. This is unlikely, however, as the ruling is seen as symbolic and unenforceable.
It is not the first time that Daniels has issued default judgments against Iran. In 2011 and 2016, the New York judge ordered the Islamic Republic to pay billions of dollars to victims of the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Tehran has yet to react to the latest ruling, but has previously dismissed such accusations as ridiculous, given the fact that none of the perpetrators were Iranian citizens, and no investigation ever found direct links to Iran.
“A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA & FDD fake news w/ selective AlQaeda docs re: Iran can’t whitewash role of US allies in 9/11,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter last year.
A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA & FDD fake news w/ selective AlQaeda docs re: Iran can't whitewash role of US allies in 9/11
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) November 2, 2017
Some 15 of the 9/11 perpetrators were citizens of Saudi Arabia, while two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt, and one was from Lebanon. However, the US lawsuit, originally filed in 2004, still claimed that Tehran somehow supported the hijackers and provided them with training and financial assistance.
Tuesday’s judgment is not linked to similar cases filed by the victims against Saudi Arabia, which claim that Riyadh provided direct support to the hijackers. Back in March, Judge Daniels rejected Saudi Arabia’s request to dismiss the lawsuits. Both Saudi and Iranian cases, however, are based on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (Jasta), which was passed in 2016 and allows families of the victims to take foreign governments to court.
conditioning……..this is more psyop to get the sheeple worked up against Iran so we willingly go to war for Israhell……..shazam…who falls for this $hit anymore ???!!!!?????
dear Bibi: get someone else to change your diaper!!!
No one is going to see a red cent from this
I’d be surprised if I’m wrong
The US govt, might since they froze Iran’s bank accounts after the Ayatollah took over…but the 9-11 victims? Not a cent, kiddo, not a cent of it. So you are not wrong.
Just another example of the judiciary being used as a political tool rather than being concerned with justice.
Why wasn’t Saudi Arabia ordered to pay BILLIONS?
Saudi government allegedly funded a ‘dry run’ for 9/11:
https://nypost.com/2017/09/09/saudi-government-allegedly-funded-a-dry-run-for-911/
Saudi Arabia 911 lawsuit can proceed, judge rules:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/28/saudi-arabia-911-lawsuit-can-proceed-judge-rules/
my bet…. a joo judge
“liable for the deaths of more than 1,000 people in the September 11 attacks” ??? I thought we were told that 3,000 died. They can’t even keep the lies straight anymore…
Won’t matter anyway…didn’t the US govt. FREEZE Iranian bank accounts in the US years ago? All this nonsense “legal” decision means is that it give the govt. the “right” to take it all–the amount in US banks just happens to be roughly 6 billion. I think there is more involved here than just the usual “Israel ordered the govt. to order the judge to do it.” Plus, I think it might set up the next false flag…and keep in mind also–Iran is getting off the dollar standard. That’s enough pretext to invade Iran seeing as how that also happened to Iraq and Libya,
And, oh yeah, while I’d say many Americans WILL fall for this utter BS, all anyone has to do is remind them IRAN IS SHIITE and ANTI-SUNNI, right? And what were the supposed attackers, SUNNI, right?
Is there anyone who reasons that the Deep State did not allow 911, if they did not even orchestrate the entire affair?? Blaming Iran is a tactical and obviously foolish contrived error. No one will believe that one!
Wasn’t HRC reportedly involved in an aircraft accident taking money to Iran in the middle of the night or something as incriminating that she was nearly assassinated (by a blow to the head- from a patriot bodyguard, who was killed?) causing her brain clot and need for look-alikes? Now that story sounds relievable!
“The default judgment seeks compensation of $12.5 million per spouse, $8.5 million per parent, $8.5 million per child, and $4.25 million per sibling.”
Rather exorbitant, don’t you think?
Especially considering the fact that not a single one killed on 9/11 was a STINKING jEW!!!
They were all warned to not go to work that day.
Man there really trying there best to steer the pot. Wonder have they sold the war yet to the viewers on cnn yet