Tehran slams US court ruling to award Iran money to bomb victims

 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman strongly condemned U.S. Supreme Court on the ruling obliging Iran to pay almost two billion dollars in frozen assets to U.S. families as compensation, Iran's IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Hossein Jaberi Ansari described such verdict as "theft," saying the U.S. verdict contradicts the principles and basics of the international rights.

Furthermore, this verdict shows that the US government is still under the influence of the Zionist circles, and it only increases the intense mistrust of the Iranian government and nation towards the hostile policies of the United States, it said.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that almost two billion dollars in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to Americans killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran.

The assets belong to the Central Bank of Iran, which has been blocked under U.S. sanctions.

Source: XINHUA