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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Iran summons Swiss ambassador over US Supreme Court ruling
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s state TV says the Iranian foreign ministry summoned Switzerland’s ambassador to Tehran over a recent US Supreme Court ruling to permit the families of victims of attacks linked to Iran to collect nearly $2 billion of frozen funds from the Islamic Republic.
Switzerland acts as an intermediary between the US and Iran, who have not had diplomatic relations since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the embassy and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Ali Akbar Velayati, a foreign adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, describes the court ruling as an act of robbery, the official IRNA news agency reports.
“Iran is insistent on safeguarding its rights and will retrieve the money,” Velayati is quoted as saying. “The way to confront Americans is to resist their ambitions.”
— AP
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