Iran Nuclear Deal Could Be Gateway for Terrorism Legal Claims<br />By CHARLIE SAVAGEMARCH 6, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — Over the last two decades, since Congress carved out a terrorism case exception to the general rule<br />that people cannot use American courts to sue foreign governments, victims of attacks have racked up more than $50 billion in default judgments against Iran.<br />Wolosky said that The Iran nuclear deal does not include terrorism issues or resolve outstanding legal claims, so you can support<br />that deal and also support the enforcement of lawful, final judgments entered by the federal courts wherever Iranian assets are found,<br />Last year, lawyers for the Sept. 11 victims persuaded a judge in Luxembourg to place a new freeze on those assets<br />while they sued over whether they could execute the default judgment against those funds, the letter said.<br />Also last year, American relations with Saudi Arabia came under strain when Congress, overriding President Obama’s veto, enacted a bill<br />that widened the terrorism exception to foreign sovereigns’ immunity from civil lawsuits, clearing the way for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue the Saudi government too.<br />In the first case of its kind, a group of attack victims — including estates of people who were killed<br />— who won one of the default judgments against Iran has gone to a European court to try to enforce it.<br />rced," he said. that will certainly try to get these assets unfrozen so they aren’t put at risk,<br />but I don’t see them walking away from the deal, even though this is a very novel, very creative use of the legal system to try to get these judgments enfo
