Off the wire
• Rossi takes revenge with win in Spanish Moto GP  • 1st LD: Freedom Party candidate leads in first round of Austrian presidential election: exit poll  • DPRK holds national meeting to mark army's 84th anniversary  • Roundup: Tazara's new CEO pledges to revive Chinese-built railway line  • Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 24  • Jordan, France discuss ways to revive Mideast peace talks  • Urgent: Austrian Freedom Party candidate wins first round of presidential election: first exit poll  • Car bombing kills 8 soldiers in southern Yemen  • Xinhua Insight: Chinese Internet celebs prize content over looks  • Ecuador declares national mourning as quake death toll surpasses 650  
You are here: 　 Home

Iran vows to take legal actions to retake U.S.-seized assets

Xinhua, April 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iran's First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri said that his country will harness every legal channel to retake the impounded assets subject to a U.S. court ruling, Press TV reported on Sunday.

"The Iranian administration will definitely use all legal means to regain the assets, and the U.S. knows that we can do that," Jahangiri was quoted as saying.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the transfer of nearly two billion U.S. dollars to the American victims of terrorist attacks, including the 1983 truck bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

Investigators of the court concluded that Iran was responsible for that attack, which Iran has denied.

Jahangiri said the U.S. court's decision amounted to "stealing" the funds of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) which had mainly been kept in European banks.

The U.S. carried out such a measure under a baseless excuse and accusations against Iran, he added.

Iran's foreign minister has denounced the recent U.S. ruling which allows the families of American victims of terrorist attacks to recover damages from Iran's frozen assets in the U.S. banks.

Also, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Hossein Jaber Ansari said in a statement that the "U.S. court ruling has mocked (international) law," and "amounts to appropriation of the Islamic Republic of Iran's property in the United States."

The assets belong to the Central Bank of Iran, which have been blocked under the U.S. sanctions. Endit