Tag: Iran
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Court OKs U.S. bid to drop Halkbank sanctions case, victims of Iranian terror fear losing path to billions
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a move alarming to victims of Iranian terrorism, including 9/11 survivors and families, the U.S. last week dropped its seven-year-old criminal case alleging that Turkey’s state-owned lender, Halkbank, participated in a multi-billion-dollar scheme to help Iran evade American economic sanctions. -
Thousands of terror victims owed billions by Iran fear Trump deal will leave them behind
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
As the war with Iran unfolded, Tehran came under attack on another, less noticed front: a barrage of legal papers issued from a federal courthouse in Manhattan. -
Billions in Bitcoin recovered by feds in huge ‘pig butchering’ fraud claimed by 9/11 families and other terror victims
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
More than $11.4 billion in the crypto currency Bitcoin, allegedly stolen from a China-Iran crypto mining operation but now in U.S. hands, has touched off a “race to the courthouse” in New York by multiple law firms seeking to claim it for the 9/11 families and other victims of terrorism. -
Fight within a fight: 9/11 widows and children appeal to force dismissal of thousands of wrongful death judgments given to non-heirs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In the 20 years since it began, the consolidated New York federal lawsuit brought by 9/11 victims has focused largely on allegations that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aided and abetted the 19 hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 people in the al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. -
In big win for defense industry, Obama rolls back limits on arms exports
By Cora Currier
ProPublica
The United States is loosening controls over military exports, in a shift that former U.S. officials and human rights advocates say could increase the flow of American-made military parts to the world’s conflicts and make it harder to enforce arms sanctions.
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