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mcgillianaire) wrote2007-09-08 12:45 am
mcgillianaire) wrote2007-09-08 12:45 am
Iran faces $2.65bn US bomb award
As you sow, so you reap?
"A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay $2.65bn to the families of 241 marines killed in a 1983 bombing of their Beirut barracks. The ruling allows nearly 1,000 family members and survivors to claim Iranian assets. Iran denies involvement in the bombing." -BBC
Nearly 20 years ago, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 as it was enroute to Dubai from Bandar Abbas, Iran. All 290 passengers aboard the aircraft died (including 66 children). The USS Vincennes was in Iranian territorial waters at the time of the incident. Till today, the American government denies wrongdoing, it has not accepted responsibility nor apologised for the incident. All they did was offer ex gratia in February 1996, a settlement of $61.8 million in compensation ($300,000 per wage-earning victim, $150,000 per non-wage-earner) for the 248 Iranians killed in the shootdown, but not for the aircraft itself. And even this was done only to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against the US in the International Court of Justice. But when Americans are killed, justice is when a judge orders Iran to pay 43x the amount they were willing to pay the innocent Iranian families for their tragic loss.
"I will never apologize for the United States of America — I don’t care what the facts are" -George Bush, then US Vice-President
"A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay $2.65bn to the families of 241 marines killed in a 1983 bombing of their Beirut barracks. The ruling allows nearly 1,000 family members and survivors to claim Iranian assets. Iran denies involvement in the bombing." -BBC
Nearly 20 years ago, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 as it was enroute to Dubai from Bandar Abbas, Iran. All 290 passengers aboard the aircraft died (including 66 children). The USS Vincennes was in Iranian territorial waters at the time of the incident. Till today, the American government denies wrongdoing, it has not accepted responsibility nor apologised for the incident. All they did was offer ex gratia in February 1996, a settlement of $61.8 million in compensation ($300,000 per wage-earning victim, $150,000 per non-wage-earner) for the 248 Iranians killed in the shootdown, but not for the aircraft itself. And even this was done only to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against the US in the International Court of Justice. But when Americans are killed, justice is when a judge orders Iran to pay 43x the amount they were willing to pay the innocent Iranian families for their tragic loss.
"I will never apologize for the United States of America — I don’t care what the facts are" -George Bush, then US Vice-President
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the ruling has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with US foreign policy of trying to tell iran that the US doesn't like them. rather pointless. I think they already know.
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