Iran to sue US for assets seizure at The Hague

Iran will soon lodge a complaint against Washington with The Hague over a US court ruling that paves the way for the use of billions of Tehran’s frozen assets, President Hassan Rouhani was quoted by Press TV as saying.

“The government will never allow for the money that belongs to the Iranian nation be easily gobbled up by the Americans,” he told a large crowd in the southeastern city of Kerman on Tuesday.

Rouhani pledged that Iran would “take this case to the International Court [of Justice] in the near future and will not spare any effort towards the restoration of the nation’s rights through legal, political and banking channels.”

On April 20, the US Supreme Court ruled that nearly $2 billion of Iran’s frozen assets had to be turned over to the American families of the victims of a 1983 bombing in Beirut and other attacks.

Source : MENA