March 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered this Thursday the United States to compensate Tehran for the freezing of Iranian funds seized by US courts to compensate the families of the victims of the bomb attack against a marine base in Beirut in 1983, although the court has denied his release.
The legal battle between the United States and Iran began when Tehran turned to the ICJ in mid-2016 in order to obtain the release of its funds. His decision came after the Supreme Court of the United States authorized the families of the victims of the attacks perpetrated in 1983 in Beirut to access the 2,000 million dollars (about 1,771 million euros) in funds frozen to Iran.
Among the beneficiaries of these funds were, in addition to the relatives of the fatalities of the attacks in Beirut, those of the victims of an attack carried out in 1996 in Saudi Arabia, among other attacks.
Iran then claimed that this was in violation of the 1955 Treaty of Amity it signed with the United States. Shortly after, the then Secretary of State of the United States Mike Pompeo announced in October 2018 the withdrawal of Washington from the Treaty of Friendship, for which the US side argued that, after ending the pact, the Iranian claim to recover its assets was canceled.
Despite this, the court in The Hague has ruled this Thursday in its ruling that Tehran does not have jurisdiction over the 1,750 million dollars in assets, since, under the treaty, the Central Bank of Iran, known as Markazi, is not a trading company.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has indicated that this ruling issued by the court represents the “legitimacy” of Tehran’s decisions and a “proof” of the “violation” of international obligations by Washington, the news agency has collected. Mehr.
