{"id":114935,"date":"2023-12-07T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=114935"},"modified":"2023-12-07T07:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T12:33:50","slug":"iranian-court-orders-us-to-pay-50b-for-soleimani-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/12\/07\/iranian-court-orders-us-to-pay-50b-for-soleimani-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Court Orders US to Pay $50B for Soleimani Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 <\/span>A Tehran court has ordered the U.S. government to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for assassinating a top Iranian general nearly four years ago, the judiciary said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Then-U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed General Qassem Soleimani, 62, and his Iraqi lieutenant, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, on January 3, 2020.<\/p>\n

Days later, Iran retaliated by firing missiles at bases in Iraq housing American and other coalition troops. No U.S. personnel were killed, but Washington said dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries.<\/p>\n

The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online news agency said a Tehran court had sentenced the U.S. government to pay $49.7 billion in “material, moral and punitive damages” in response to a lawsuit filed by more than 3,300 Iranians.<\/p>\n

The court found 42 individuals and legal persons guilty, including Trump, the U.S. government, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Mizan added.<\/p>\n

Hero of Iran-Iraq War<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soleimani commanded the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n

One of the country’s most popular public figures, he spearheaded Iran’s Middle East operations and was seen as a hero of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War.<\/p>\n

Iranian courts have now handed down several rulings against the United States.<\/p>\n

Last month, an Iranian court ordered the U.S. government to pay $420 million in compensation to victims of an abortive 1980 operation to free hostages held at the U.S. Embassy.<\/p>\n

In August, a Tehran court demanded Washington pay $330 million in damages for “planning a coup” in 1980 against the fledgling Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

Those suits followed a series of multibillion-dollar compensation rulings against Tehran by U.S. courts.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered that Iranian assets frozen in the United States should be paid to victims of attacks Washington has blamed on Tehran, including the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and a 1996 blast in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Tehran denies all responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n

It has appealed to international justice to help unlock funds of several Iranian individuals and companies that have been frozen by Washington.<\/p>\n

In March, the International Court of Justice ruled that Washington’s freezing of funds was “manifestly unreasonable.” But it ruled it had no jurisdiction to unblock nearly $2 billion in Iranian Central Bank assets frozen by the United States.<\/p>\n

Iran and Washington have had no diplomatic relations since the aftermath of the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 A Tehran court has ordered the U.S. government to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for assassinating a top Iranian general nearly four years ago, the judiciary said Wednesday. Then-U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed General Qassem Soleimani, 62, and his Iraqi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114938,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114935\/revisions\/114938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}