Iran Nuclear Deal Could Be Gateway for Terrorism Legal Claims
By CHARLIE SAVAGEMARCH 6, 2017
WASHINGTON — Over the last two decades, since Congress carved out a terrorism case exception to the general rule
that people cannot use American courts to sue foreign governments, victims of attacks have racked up more than $50 billion in default judgments against Iran.
Wolosky said that The Iran nuclear deal does not include terrorism issues or resolve outstanding legal claims, so you can support
that deal and also support the enforcement of lawful, final judgments entered by the federal courts wherever Iranian assets are found,
Last year, lawyers for the Sept. 11 victims persuaded a judge in Luxembourg to place a new freeze on those assets
while they sued over whether they could execute the default judgment against those funds, the letter said.
Also last year, American relations with Saudi Arabia came under strain when Congress, overriding President Obama’s veto, enacted a bill
that widened the terrorism exception to foreign sovereigns’ immunity from civil lawsuits, clearing the way for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue the Saudi government too.
In the first case of its kind, a group of attack victims — including estates of people who were killed
— who won one of the default judgments against Iran has gone to a European court to try to enforce it.
rced," he said. that will certainly try to get these assets unfrozen so they aren’t put at risk,
but I don’t see them walking away from the deal, even though this is a very novel, very creative use of the legal system to try to get these judgments enfo
