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International Law Keyed to Damrosche
Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Case No. A/18
Facts
After the 1975 Iranian revolution, Iranian militants seized U.S. diplomatic and consular personnel in Iran (D) as hostages. In retaliation, the United States seized Iranian assets in the United States, and people and companies with claims against Iran (D) filed suit in U.S. courts, levying attachments against blocked Iranian assets. A solution was mediated by Algiers in January 1981 culminating in the Algiers Accord, which was adopted by both states. Included in the provision of the Algiers’s Accords was a Claims Settlement Declaration, and created an arbitral tribunal in The Hague to hear claims by the nationals of either state against the government of the other state. Certain people with dual Iranian-U.S. citizenship (P) brought Iran (D) before the tribunal and the jurisdiction of the tribunal was challenged by Iran (D).
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