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| US Supreme Court Says Iran Must Pay |
| US Supreme Court Says Iran Must Pay 2 Billion Dollars To Terror Victims
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 20-April-2016
13:4:19 PM |
| The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Iran must pay nearly $2 billion in frozen assets to victims and relatives of those killed in attacks blamed on the Islamic republic.
In a 6-2 decision, the court upheld a ruling in favor of relatives of the 241 US Marines and other American service members who died in the 1983 bombing of barracks in Beirut, and other attacks blamed on Iran.
More than 1,000 Americans are affected by the decision.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the court's opinion rejecting the Iranian central bank's efforts to block payments to relatives of the victims.
It was a win for President Barack Obama's administration and for Congress, which passed a 2012 law ordering Iran's Bank Markazi to turn over bond assets it held in a New York bank account.
Iran argued the law was unconstitutional as it violated separation of powers, with lawmakers ordering a particular result in a legal case, but a federal court rejected that claim and backed the law.
The Supreme Court agreed with the lower court.
The 2012 law "does not transgress constraints the Constitution places on Congress and the president," Ginsburg said in delivering the majority opinion from the bench
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