THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2004
Iran court orders US to pay $600 m
REUTERS
TEHRAN : An Iranian court has ruled the United States should pay $600 million in compensation for supplying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, the official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday.
IRNA said the money in the case, brought by Iranian war veterans and disabled, should be paid to survivors of attacks on the town of Sardasht which borders Iraq .
Iraqi gas attacks killed thousands of Iranians and Iraqi Kurds in the 1980-1988 Iran- Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands died on both sides and Iran has thousands disabled by chemical arms.
"The court has ordered the American government to pay the money for furnishing Saddam with chemical weapons to attack Iran ," IRNA reported.
The US and Iran have been at odds since 1979 when more than 50 Americans were held hostage by Iranian student militants at the US Embassy in Tehran for 444 days after the Islamic revolution.
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