Iran Granted Right to Take Case to U.S. Court
<i> Associated Press</i>
SAN FRANCISCO —
Iran can go to a United States court to enforce arbitration awards by a claims tribunal created when U.S. hostages were released in 1981, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court decision requiring a Los Angeles-area firm, Gould Marketing Inc., to pay $3.6 million to the Iranian government in a contract dispute over military communications equipment.
A U.S. lawyer for Iran said the ruling was the first by an appellate court on the issue.
