Iran Court Orders US to Pay $963 Mil to Saddam's Victims

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Iranian court orders US to pay $963 million compensation

Iran Court Orders US to Pay $963 Mil to Saddam's Victims

29.04.2004

1.00pm

TEHRAN - An Iranian court has ruled the United States should pay

US$600 million ($963 million) in compensation for supplying ousted

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, the official IRNA

news agency said on Wednesday.

 

IRNA said the money in the case, brought by Iranian war veterans and

disabled, should be paid to survivors of attacks on the town of

Sardasht which borders Iraq.

 

Iraqi gas attacks killed thousands of Iranians and Iraqi Kurds in

the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands died on both

sides and Iran has thousands disabled by chemical arms.

 

No further details were available and Iranian officials were

unavailable for any immediate comment.

 

"The court has ordered the American government to pay the money for

furnishing Saddam with chemical weapons to attack Iran," IRNA

reported.

 

The United States and Iran have been at odds since 1979 when more

than 50 Americans were held hostage by Iranian student militants at

the US Embassy in Tehran for 444 days after the Islamic revolution.

 

The verdict was submitted to the Swiss Embassy, which has covered US

interests in Iran since Washington cut ties with Tehran in 1980.

 

- REUTERS

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