TEHRAN: Irans lawmakers introduce an urgent bill, demanding compensation from the US for the damages which it has inflicted on the country since 1953.
The MPs, irked by recent moves in the US for appropriation of Irans frozen assets, presented the bill Monday with a single urgency status, meaning it will be discussed immediately in parliament, Press TV reported.
In order to redeem the rights of the Iranian nation, the Administration is obliged to take necessary legal measures on receiving compensations and damages from the American government in proportion to its role in the following cases, the draft bill said, listing the cases in 11 entries.
On top of the list, the bill demands restitution from the US over loss of lives and property damage resulting from the CIA-led 1953 coup which toppled the government of Mohammad Mosaddeq and restored the shah as an absolute dictator.
The US should also pay compensation for more than 223,000 Iranians killed and about 600,000 others injured due to American intelligence, political and military cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his 1980-1988 war on Iran, it said.
The bill further seeks damages over US support for MKO and other terrorist groups in assassinating and kidnapping Iranians and hijacking the countrys flights as well as Washingtons sanctions on Tehran and blockade of its assets.
The MPs have also cited the US government complicit in Saudi killing of Iranian pilgrims in 1987 and deaths of several hundred others during the Hajj stampede in Mina in September and demanded compensation.
AMERICAN THEFT
The motion comes in the wake of recent measures taken in the US to appropriate Iranian assets frozen in bank accounts in the country.
The US Supreme Court is reportedly considering a case filed by over 1,300 Americans pressing to receive billions of dollars of the Iranian money in awarded damages over two bombings in Beirut and Saudi Arabia in 1983 and 1996.
The Obama administration has reportedly urged the court not to overturn the decisions of US circuit and appeals courts to award the plaintiffs.
In 2012, President Barack Obama issued an executive order blocking all of the Central Bank of Irans assets held in the US in order to prevent Tehran from repatriating them.
At the same time, Congress passed a law which included a provision making it easier for the Americans to use Iranian funds frozen in the US.
The American governments move to lay hands on Irans blockaded assets amounts to theft and we are working to answer it, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday.
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