Japan bank freezes Iran transactions after court order
after a US court ordered a $2.6 billion asset freeze over the 1983 bombing of US barracks in Beirut, a bank spokesman said on Thursday. "It is true that we have received the order from the US court," to freeze $2.6 billion of assets, a spokesman for told AFP, declining to give details on the value of Iranian holdings at the bank. The court order reflects "the amount that the court in 2007 upheld for compensation demands by families of victims of the 1983 attacks on US forces in Beirut," he said. The bank lodged an appeal against the US ...
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