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April 25, 2009
Obama Wants Iran Hostage Suit Tossed Out
US wants Iran hostage suit tossed out
WASHINGTON
The Obama administration has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit against Iran filed by Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran 30 years ago.
The request comes in a $6.6 billion class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington. Fifty-two American diplomats and military officials were held captive for more than a year at the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency by a group of Islamist students who supported the Iranian revolution.
The hostages were released on Jan. 20, 1981, just minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the new president.
In court papers filed Tuesday night without any announcement, the Justice Department argued that the agreement to release the hostages, known as the Algiers Accords, precluded lawsuits against Iran.
A similar lawsuit brought by the Iranian hostages was dismissed in 2000 after the government successfully argued it was banned by the Algiers Accords. The hostages argue that legislation passed by Congress last year and signed into law by President George W. Bush gives them the right to bring private lawsuits.
But the Justice Department argued that the law does not mention the Algiers Accords, much less explicitly repeal them.
"The gratitude of the United States for the service and dedication of these brave individuals cannot be overstated, nor can the suffering and abuse they endured on behalf of this country be exaggerated; these matters are beyond dispute," the Justice Department wrote in its filing.
The hostages argue that Iran supported their confinement and abuse, with visits from government officials, stays in government prisons and buildings and threats of trial in Iranian courts. The lawsuit says current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of their interrogators.
The lawsuit says the hostages were tortured, beaten sometimes until they lost consciousness and kept in fear of their lives, at times even lined up in front of marksmen locking their guns. It says they were imprisoned without adequate food, clothing or medical care, blindfolded with their hands tied, interrogated for hours at a time and kept in isolation for months at a time.
The original plaintiffs are three of the hostages _ Charles Scott of Jonesboro, Ga., David Roeder of Alexandria, Va., and Don Sharer of Mansfield, Texas _ and the wife and daughter of another hostage, Barry Rosen, from New York City.
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The Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by former hostages against the government of Iran. It is the latest twist in a long legal and legislative saga arising out of a deal struck with Tehran in the closing days of the Carter administration.
The intervention comes just days after an Iranian court convicted U.S.-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi of spying and sentenced her to eight years’ imprisonment.
Coming at a time when the Obama administration is seeking to engage Iran, the move mirrors similar action taken by the previous administration.
The multi-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of 52 Americans taken hostage by government-backed Islamists in Tehran during the 1979 Islamic revolution and held at the U.S. Embassy for 444 days.
The Justice Department on Tuesday night filed papers with the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, arguing that the case should not proceed because of an agreement reached with Iran in 1981.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Obama is the most dangerous man in our country. He is a terrorist in a suit.
He could care less about the citizens of the USA and our military.
Here is a page at my website about....
The Hostage Rescue Attempt In Iran, April 24-25, 1980 ~ 444 Days Held Hostage in Iran
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.....Thank you Tim for sending this to me.
Tim
Doorgunner
Division Recon
1st of the 9th, 1st Cav Division
68-69
Posted by Wild Thing at April 25, 2009 07:48 AM
Comments
WT,
HERE is an issue you can discuss with Logue and Sigman. What does the Obamination tell the families of the fallen who died trying to rescue the Teheran Hostages? "Semper FUBAR?"
I am completely ashamed of the US president. There is little doubt that he is a muslim mole.
Posted by: Billy Ray at April 25, 2009 11:02 AM
Obama is a muslim. His father was a muzzie and Huessein adores his father, who abandoned him. Obama is a psycho case.
Posted by: TomR at April 25, 2009 11:45 AM
Why not just raise the White Flag over the White House.
In other words he could care less about the hostages, the American People or anything to do with this country.
I can not believe this is happening. I can't believe there is nobody outraged besides us. Where the hell are the real patriots in this country. At this rate we will have no country by this time next year.
Posted by: Mark at April 25, 2009 03:05 PM
Better that he tosses Carter out, into Iran and follows soon after. He is despicable.
Bob A.
Posted by: Bob A at April 25, 2009 06:29 PM
Billy Ray, I haven"t had a chance to
write to them yet. This was a really
busy week at work. I know what you
mean and feel the same way.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 25, 2009 06:40 PM
Tom, yes, I bet if he had a test of some kind
before running for president, that is
exactly what they would have said about
him. That he is a psycho.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 25, 2009 06:44 PM
Mark, good point about the white flag.
The next tea parties or whatever they have
planned, will be more about all of this I
bet.
I agree Mark, where the heck is the outrage.
There should be press conferences for one
thing from our Republican politicians about
these things ranting about what Obama is
doing. If it was back during our Founding
Fathers they would have been very active
about this horrible agenda Obama is pulling
off.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 25, 2009 06:51 PM
Bob A., yes and I thought Carter and Bill
Clinton were horrible. Obama takes being
horrible to a whole new level.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 25, 2009 06:53 PM
Let's not forget the Marines killed on Eagle Claw:
Johnson, Harvey and Holmes
Semper Fi, brothers.
Posted by: Billy Ray at April 25, 2009 07:25 PM
