Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - International Service: On the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, a federal court in New York ordered the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to pay a total of $144.7 billion to thousands of injured and or condemned those whose family members were killed in this terrorist attack.
According to Voice of America, Judge George Daniels claimed that he issued this heavy fine after, according to him, the defendants did not defend themselves in American courts.
Judge Daniels, in the judgments he issued on the 6th and 7th days of Samblah, referring to the judgments issued in the past, said that the federal courts can use their jurisdiction to hold the Islamic Emirate and the Iranian government responsible for these terrorist attacks.
The rulings issued against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Emirate include the complaints of 6,000 people in the case known as "Burnett against Al-Baraka Banking and Investment" which was filed in the summer of 2002 against dozens of foreign governments, banks, companies and charitable institutions, which were accused They were supporting Al-Qaeda group.
According to "LAW360", the Islamic Emirate must pay more than 109 billion dollars to the survivors of the September 11 attacks and also pay another 2.5 billion dollars to more than 130 people who were injured during these attacks, but survived.
This ruling has been issued while the Biden government had previously announced that half of the seized foreign assets of Afghanistan would be confiscated as compensation to the families of the victims of September 11.
The rulings of recent days are the latest examples of monetary penalties imposed in this lawsuit.
Jerry Goldman, the lawyer of a group of plaintiffs in this case, estimated that in the course of his representation in this case over the past few years, judgments worth billions of dollars have been issued against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, nearly 3 thousand American citizens were killed.