WORLD : Iran, U.S. Open Talks on Claim
The United States and Iran opened a fresh round of talks today to try to settle Iran’s $11-billion claim over U.S. military contracts broken after the 1979 Iranian revolution, a U.S. diplomat said.
Abraham Sofaer, the U.S. State Department legal adviser, will meet his Iranian counterpart, Goudarz Eftekhar-Jaromi, during two of the three days of talks.
The claim is the largest pending in the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal set up nine years ago in The Hague to determine financial damages after the two countries broke diplomatic ties.
Washington admits that much of the military equipment ordered under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was never delivered, but says it is worth only millions of dollars.
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