Press TV - A US federal court has ruled that an Iranian woman held in Australia for two years without trial over alleged violation of US sanctions is free to go. Negar Ghodskani, 40, was pregnant when Australian Federal Police arrested her on behalf of US authorities in 2017 over what Washington claimed was flouting US sanctions on Iran by purchasing ...

Press TV - A court in the United States has confirmed the arrest of US-born Iranian Press TV news presenter Marzieh Hashemi as a material witness in an unspecified investigation. Ms. Hashemi, 59, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on unspecified charges upon arrival at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, ...

Press TV - Press TV news presenter Marzieh Hashemi, who has been imprisoned by the FBI on unspecified charges, is due to appear in a Washington, DC, court on Friday. The 59-year-old US citizen, who is based in Iran, was detained as a material witness to a criminal case and no charges were pressed against her, according to Hossein Hashemi, her elder ...

Press TV - A Washington court claims Iran has had a role in the bombing of a housing complex in Saudi Arabias eastern city of Khobar, which killed US military personnel, ordering Tehran to pay over $104 million in damages. Issuing a default judgment on Monday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered that the sum should go to the victims ...

FNA- A prominent Iranian political activist dismissed the Southern District Court of New York's ruling ordering Iran to pay more than $6 billion of reparation for the 2001 terrorist attacks, stressing Israel's role in killing nearly 3,000 Americans at the time. The Southern District Court's ruling "found the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic ...

MNA FM Spokesman Ghasemi has condemned a politically-motivated US court default judgement requiring Iran to pay compensations to victims of September 11, 2001 attacks in absence of any evidence of Iranian involvement. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi forwarded Irans strong protests against the issuing of such ...

Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US Supreme Court's complete endorsement of President Donald Trump's travel ban on Muslims is tantamountto givinga free pass to fanaticism. "US Supreme Court defends and allows Trump's #MuslimBan to go into full effect," Zarif said on his official Twitter account on Tuesday. He ...

IFP- An Iranian legislator has strongly slammed a pointless and illogical US court ruling which urges Iran to pay compensation to the families of the victims of a bombing attributed to Hamas. Iranian lawmaker Mohammad-Ebrahim Rezaee has, in a Farsi interview with ICANA, reacted to a US court verdict sentencing Iran to pay $209 million in damages ...

FNA- The Iranian foreign ministry announced on Sunday that the country will start litigation against Canada for recognizing the US courts rulings against the Islamic Republic in absentia. "The former Canadian government cut ties (with Iran) in a unilateral move and embarked on measures, including removal of Iran's political immunity in Canada, which ...

AP-- An Israeli advocacy group on Thursday asked a U.S. federal court to block aerospace giant Boeing Co.'s planned $16.6 billion deal with Iran Air, saying the Tehran government must first pay off billions of dollars in damages to families of people killed or wounded by Iranian-backed militant groups. In papers filed in the Northern District of Illinois ...

A Turkish gold trader accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran on Tuesday asked a federal judge to recuse himself, citing remarks he made about a series of earlier Turkish prosecutions targeting him and others. Lawyers for Reza Zarrab, 33, filed the motion a week before the judge they want recused, U.S. District Judge Richard ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Iran asked the United Nations on Thursday to intervene with the U.S. government over a Supreme Court ruling that allows nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets to be paid to victims of terrorist attacks for which the Middle Eastern country has been blamed. In a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday, Iran's Foreign ...

Tehran, March 14, IRNA - Irans Foreign Ministry criticized White House on a recent US court decision that has ordered Iran to pay over $10 billion in damages to families of victims who died on 9,11 even though there is no evidence of Tehrans connection to the terrorist attack. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi-Ansari, in a statement ...

The US Supreme Court is mulling a case on appropriating $2 billion of Iranian assets frozen in a bank in New York. Over 1,300 Americans are reportedly pressing the US government, judiciary and Congress to pay them billions of dollars in awarded damages over two bombings in Beirut and Saudi Arabia in 1983 and 1996. Iran has dismissed ...