Top UN court to rule in Iran-US dispute over frozen assets - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Iran has denied involvement, but a U.S. District Court judge found Tehran responsible in 2003.
37% : The U.S. and Iran have had no diplomatic relations since militant students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979.
37% : Visek argued the frozen assets were state holdings not covered by the treaty, which Washington terminated in 2018 in response to an order by the International Court of Justice in a separate case to lift some sanctions against Iran.
31% : Iran took its claim to the world court in 2016 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that money belonging to Iran's central bank could be used as compensation for the 241 American troops who died in the 1983 bombing, which was believed to be linked to Tehran.
31% : In the case it took to the Hague-based International Court of Justice, Iran argued the asset freeze was a breach of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, which promised friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

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