US judge orders Iran to pay $6bn more to 9/11 victims

Judge George B Daniels of the Southern District Court of New York, has issued a default judgment ruling that Iran must pay $6 billion more to the victims of the 9/11 terror attack which killed almost 3,000 people.

The court filings in Monday’s ruling in the case – Thomas Burnett, Sr et al v. The Islamic Republic of Iran et al – finds “the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran” liable for the deaths of more than 1,000 people as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Court filings further revealed that Iran is ordered to pay “$12,500,000 per spouse, $8,500,000 per parent, $8,500,000 per child, and $4,250,000 per sibling” to the families and estates of the deceased.

A default judgment is issued when a defendant does not contest the case in court and it is not the first as Daniels issued other default judgements against Iran in 2011 and 2016 that ordered the Islamic Republic to pay victims and insurers billions of dollars for damages and deaths in the deadly hijacker attacks.

 

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