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2018-10-09 Home Front: WoT

US rejects Iran's legal claim to recover $1.75 bln in frozen assets

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 ...When Obama and Kerry were finessing the details on the Iranians' ~~bribe~~ funds-transfer-that-wasn't-a-treaty-so-the-Senate-doesn't-have-to-worry-its-little-head-about-it, more than a few GOP senators signed a letter reminding people that if it ain't a treaty then the next guy to come along might just scrap the whole damned deal.

Heaven knows they weren't thinking of DJT at the time - who was? - but you'd think the Iranians might be figuring out by now that the next guy ain't playing by the same rules anymore.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-10-09 05:17|| 2018-10-09 05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Invading an embassy and taking its personnel has been considered for thousands of years, an act of war.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2018-10-09 06:33|| 2018-10-09 06:33|| Front Page Top

#3 The US Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that the assets must be turned over to American families of victims of the 1983 bombing of a US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, among others.

The noose tightens.

Yes to compensation for Beirut bombing of USMC barracks. There also needs to be compensation for enslaving U.S. embassy employees during the Carter admin. Add to that the seizure of our ships in the Persian Gulf.

Trump probably has given a standing order to sink any Iranian ships that harass or try to seize any of our ships.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-10-09 08:39|| 2018-10-09 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and burn the port they came out of (I hope).

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-10-09 13:42|| 2018-10-09 13:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Iran mullah depression sets in, missing bin Barry.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-10-09 13:43|| 2018-10-09 13:43|| Front Page Top

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