Iran orders US to pay compensation for slain nuke scientists

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By NASSER KARIMI

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A court in Iran on Thursday ordered the United States government to pay over $4 billion to the families of Iranian nuclear scientists who have been killed in targeted attacks in recent years, state-run media reported.

The largely symbolic ruling underscores the escalating tensions between Iran and the West over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, with negotiations to restore the tattered atomic accord at a standstill.

Although Tehran has blamed Israel in the past for slayings targeting Iranian nuclear scientists since a decade ago, Iran did not directly accuse its arch-foe Israel in its announcement. Iran has not recognized Israel since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted the pro-West monarchy and brought Islamists to power.

The court mentioned Israel only in saying the U.S. supported the “Zionist regime” in its “organized crime” against the victims.



FILE - In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry, military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist who was killed on Friday, during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. A court in Iran on Thursday, June 23, 2022 ordered the United States government to pay over $4 billion to the families of Iranian nuclear scientists who have been killed in targeted attacks in recent years, state-run media reported. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP, File)


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[moonshinegnomie]

1. will they take a 3rd party posted check from TFG????

[Wonder Why]

2. You mean the guy that always pays his bills? Or the one

who steals from his own backers? Or one who cheats everyone? Or all three of them?

He can avoid paying when he shows he's only making $.50 per hour making license plates in Georgia.

[ancianita]

3. In the past the Israelis were the ones who went in and killed them, from what I've read.

Iran is committed forever to develop a nuclear bomb, and this, along with the Stuxnet worm that wrecked their centrifuges, is what the DoD and other allies do (through black ops -- Israel is considered responsible for the 2010–2012 assassination campaign against Iranian nuclear scientists) to stop them, since Iran's stopped allowing the IAEA access.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists#Responsibility

We're not gonna pay. Iran is grandstanding victimhood by the great satan again.

[Igel]

8. Negative solidarity.

It's what helps keep an empire together. That, and centralized centers of oppression.

Look at this " target="_blank">link and you'll see that Persia (now Iran) has territory that in nation-state terms should be given the choice of joining Iraq, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan.

If Kurdistan or Balochistan were to exist ... (And Iran has had a Kurdish or Balochi independence movement at times.)

Iran is a rump empire, what's left after it's lost most of its territory and is left vestigial. Unlike Britain, it was land-based. Like " target="_blank">Russia.

Oh, wait, that's an old, old ethnographic map of the Russian empire. Oops. USSR, without useless jurisdictional lines. (Poland's clearly at the Curzon line.)

A better " target="_blank">map , if the link works, is horribly political. It cancels Russians. Humorously note that the dominant language for this is, um, Ukrainian. < chuckle >

Still, Russia is a patchwork of ethnicities conquered by tsars and komtsars.

[ancianita]

9. Thanks, interesting.

(I'd written a lengthy comment then lost it by hitting your link and trying to return here. ANYway, I'll see if I can remember ... )

I don't know how this is relevant to Israelis who have permanently committed to survival by any means necessary. Mythos of their black ops prowess abound. Over decades Israel's Mossad has identified Iran as the base of attacks by proxies, which, in the obvious believer wars we see, play into empire stuff played by Russia and the Middle East powers. And so an Iron Dome.

Why Iran rules against the U.S. is interesting, but it's only because they'd love to take Western money, tech, anything else, and turn it against the West in the form of a nuclear bomb. They wouldn't need a big one, either.

[dlk]

4. Attorneys like to say, getting a judgment in one thing, collecting it is another...

n/t

[Galraedia]

5. Give them Trump Instead

[CloudWatcher]

6. Or not ....

I'd be careful about that ... I think giving them TFG might be considered an act of war.

[VarryOn]

7. Duly noted. Nt

[oldsoftie]

10. Shove it up your ass dickheads. nt