A court docket in Tehran has dominated that the United States should shell out $330 million in damages to survivors and victims of the 1980 Nojeh coup plot to overthrow the then-Iranian authorities.
In a ruling on Saturday, the worldwide wing of the Iranian judiciary accused the US of “orchestrating and executing” the aborted coup and referred to as on Washington to pay the damages, the judiciary-affiliated Mizan News Agency reported.
The verdict got here in response to a lawsuit filed by survivors and households of the coup victims towards the US authorities and 7 different defendants.
On July 24, a court docket listening to was held in Tehran the place survivors and households of the victims offered their circumstances towards the US.
After “careful consideration of the case and examination of available documents“, the court docket dominated that the US should pay $30 million in “material and moral” damages and $300 million in “punitive damages.”
The coup plot in July 1980, a yr after the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi rule, was geared toward toppling the federal government of then-President Abdolhassan Banisadr.
The coup try was carried out on July 9-10, 1980, by a whole lot of navy officers allegedly on the behest of the final Pahlavi Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar, which was lastly aborted.
The coup was deliberate on the Nojeh Air Base close to Kabudrahang metropolis in western Hamedan province.
The coup got here as American diplomats taken hostage following the US embassy takeover in November 1979 have been nonetheless in Iranian custody.
In July 2017, Iranian authorities mentioned the US had a “key role” in planning and executing the 1980 coup, citing paperwork carrying confession by a pilot who had allegedly collaborated with plotters.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
