Iran VP hails French court’s rejection of US anti-Iran verdict
Iran’s vice president for legal affairs hailed the French Supreme Court’s decision to reject a US request to confiscate $247 million in Iranian assets and said that it marked an important achievement for the Islamic Republic.
On June 28, the French Court of Cassation upheld a March 2021 verdict by a court of appeal that refused the US call for confiscating Iranian assets as per a US federal court verdict in 1998.
“This decision marks a very important legal achievement for the Islamic Republic of Iran and the [Raeisi] administration because it cemented the failure of the US pressures to have their rulings recognized and implemented in Europe,” Mohammad Dehqan said on Saturday.
Dehqan argued that the verdict will have an important reverberation on European countries’ judicial procedure and their courage to dismiss US bids to impose its baseless and unfounded rulings on them.
Back in 1998, a US court ordered Iran to pay $247 million to the family of Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old US citizen killed in a bomb explosion in Gaza in April 1995, claiming that Iran was responsible for her death since Iran allegedly supported the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for the act.
The family of Alisa has been seeking to implement the ruling in a European country.
However, back in March 2021, the Paris Court of Appeals turned down the verdict issued by the US court. The US court then appealed against the Paris court’s ruling.
Flatow’s verdict had been rejected before by Italian courts in 2013 and 2015.