“Plaintiffs’ lawyer Tom Mellon said his legal team may seek the seizure of Iranian state assets overseas. Last year, U.S. District Judge George Daniels found Iran, its Grand Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and the regime’s Lebanese client, Hezbollah, aided al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Mellon said international seizures are common in the business world, ‘but in the terror world, this is uncharted territory.'” [Oh look, a legal doctrine made up on the spot, which just happens to double as a pretext for war…]
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