do 24 feb 2015, 19:26

Hostages Iranian embassy USA get money

WASHINGTON –

More than thirty years after their release, to get Americans who during the late seventies, early eighties, held hostage were in the American embassy in Iran compensation from the state. Reported that American media Thursday. President Barack Obama signed a law stating that each of the more than fifty hostages or their relatives a little more than a converted four million euros.

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The hostage crisis in the Iranian capital Tehran started in november 1979 and lasted 444 days, approximately fourteen months. The former hostages have three decades of litigation to get the compensation.

The hostage-taking began during the Iranian revolution that put an end to the reign of shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The American embassy was stormed and occupied by students out of dissatisfaction with the support the US gave to the shah.

Several courts, including the Supreme Court, held the past few years, compensation against, and also the politics didn’t get something of the ground. By the miljardenboete that the French bank BNP Paribas in the US had to pay because of the sanctions against Iran had violated, however, was money free. The fine was for a section reserved for the victims of state terror.