Iranian court orders US to pay $963m compensation

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Iranian court orders US to pay $963 million compensation

29.04.2004
1.00pm

TEHRAN - An Iranian court has ruled the United States should pay US$600 million ($963 million) in compensation for supplying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, the official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday.

IRNA said the money in the case, brought by Iranian war veterans and disabled, should be paid to survivors of attacks on the town of Sardasht which borders Iraq.

Iraqi gas attacks killed thousands of Iranians and Iraqi Kurds in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands died on both sides and Iran has thousands disabled by chemical arms.

No further details were available and Iranian officials were unavailable for any immediate comment.

"The court has ordered the American government to pay the money for furnishing Saddam with chemical weapons to attack Iran," IRNA reported.

The United States and Iran have been at odds since 1979 when more than 50 Americans were held hostage by Iranian student militants at the US Embassy in Tehran for 444 days after the Islamic revolution.

The verdict was submitted to the Swiss Embassy, which has covered US interests in Iran since Washington cut ties with Tehran in 1980.

- REUTERS

[Moses]

I don't see how anyone can argue with this.

[dev0ra]

Yeah, like we're really going to pay up. Tell me another one. Does anyone know if we ever paid up our MILLIONS of $$ in back dues we owe to the UN? Seems to me the rules apply to everyone BUT the US. Must be why bu$h wanted no part of the International Court. After all, he and his buddies wouldn't like answering for their Crimes Against Humanity, now would they?

[Moses]

It would appear that they planned and plan on committing crimes against humanity.