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> Iran Court Orders U.S. to Pay $600 Million > Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:51 AM ET > > TEHRAN (Reuters) - 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. > > No further details were available and Iranian officials were unavailable > for any immediate comment. > > "The court has ordered the American government to pay the money for > furnishing Saddam with chemical weapons to attack Iran," IRNA > reported. > > The United States and Iran have been at odds since 1979 when more than 50 > Americans were held hostage by Iranian student militants at the U.S. > Embassy in Tehran for 444 days after the Islamic revolution. > > The verdict was submitted to the Swiss Embassy which has covered U.S. > interests in Iran since Washington cut ties with Tehran in 1980.
