Iran Orders US To Pay $50 Billion For Assassinating Its Top General Qasem Soleimani
- A Tehran court has ordered the US government to pay $49.7 billion in damages for the 2020 assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
- This ruling follows previous Iranian court orders demanding compensation from the US government, including $420 million for an operation in 1980 and $330 million for planning a coup in the same year.
- The US Supreme Court had previously ordered frozen Iranian assets in the US to be paid to victims of attacks blamed on Iran.
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Iranian court demands $50 billion from US over General Soleimani's assassination in 2020
A Tehran court has issued a verdict demanding the US government to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. The drone strike, ordered by then-President Donald Trump near Baghdad airport in 2020, resulted in the death of Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The Mizan Online news agency reported that the Tehran court sentenced the US government to pay $49.7 billion in "materia
Iranian court orders US govt., entities to pay $50bn over Gen. Soleimani assassination
An Iranian court has ordered the US government as well as several individuals and entities to pay a sum of $49.77 billion in damages for their roles in the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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