Iran insists on receiving a trillion dollars from the US
According to Tehran, the US is obligated to pay Iran a trillion dollars as compensation for years of unilateral sanctions. Read Full Article at RT.com.
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A senior official from Tehran has asserted that the United States owes Iran a trillion dollars due to the extensive economic sanctions imposed over the past decades, while also accusing Washington of supporting terrorism.
In a speech on Saturday, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, criticized the US-led West—referred to by him as the "Arrogant Front"—for attempting "to use different tricks in the form of their own hybrid war" to destabilize Iran.
He claimed that “the Americans themselves openly admit that they formed [the terrorist groups] ISIS and Al-Qaeda” to create discord between Iran and its neighboring countries, and to safeguard their ally, Israel, who is also seen as Iran's main adversary.
Shamkhani condemned the sanctions imposed by the US, which first came into effect after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, stating, “Americans should pay a trillion dollars in damages to Iran because they held back our country for 25 years.”
The US has enacted multiple rounds of economic sanctions against Iran over the years, designating the country as a "state sponsor of terrorism." A significant thaw in relations occurred in 2015, when Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program in exchange for some sanctions relief. However, this arrangement was disrupted in 2018 when the Trump administration withdrew from the deal and reinstated sanctions targeting Iran’s oil industry and financial sector.
In 2021, former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed that US sanctions had caused $1 trillion in damage to Iran’s economy, insisting on compensation from Washington as a condition for reinstating the nuclear deal.
Shamkhani's remarks follow a December 2023 ruling from an Iranian court, which ordered the US government—including the US Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the National Security Agency, and the CIA—to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, in 2020. The court also demanded a public apology to the over 3,000 Iranian citizens who filed the lawsuit.
Allen M Lee for TROIB News
In a speech on Saturday, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, criticized the US-led West—referred to by him as the "Arrogant Front"—for attempting "to use different tricks in the form of their own hybrid war" to destabilize Iran.
He claimed that “the Americans themselves openly admit that they formed [the terrorist groups] ISIS and Al-Qaeda” to create discord between Iran and its neighboring countries, and to safeguard their ally, Israel, who is also seen as Iran's main adversary.
Shamkhani condemned the sanctions imposed by the US, which first came into effect after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, stating, “Americans should pay a trillion dollars in damages to Iran because they held back our country for 25 years.”
The US has enacted multiple rounds of economic sanctions against Iran over the years, designating the country as a "state sponsor of terrorism." A significant thaw in relations occurred in 2015, when Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program in exchange for some sanctions relief. However, this arrangement was disrupted in 2018 when the Trump administration withdrew from the deal and reinstated sanctions targeting Iran’s oil industry and financial sector.
In 2021, former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed that US sanctions had caused $1 trillion in damage to Iran’s economy, insisting on compensation from Washington as a condition for reinstating the nuclear deal.
Shamkhani's remarks follow a December 2023 ruling from an Iranian court, which ordered the US government—including the US Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the National Security Agency, and the CIA—to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, in 2020. The court also demanded a public apology to the over 3,000 Iranian citizens who filed the lawsuit.
Allen M Lee for TROIB News
