The double-urgency bill, in five articles, was passed during Parliament’s open session on Sunday with 181 Yes, 6 Nays, and 8 abstentions. 202 parliamentarians had already signed a preliminary draft of the bill.
The law requires the government for ‘retaliatory measures’ against US encroachments on Iranian assets; it mentions historical events of the contemporary past such as coup d’état of 1953 which overthrow the popular government of Mohammad Mosaddeq and Nojeh coup d’état of 1980, and casualties of Iran-Iraq War (1080-88) as events where the US played a role and contributed to damage to Iran’s national interests, and where the government should address as potential events to elicit compensations by the US government.
The bill cites also Saddam Hussein’s air raids on Iran’s oil extraction facilities and rigs in Persian Gulf oil-rich regions and any seizure of Iranian assets and resources by the US after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 as proper cases of claiming compensation.
“The government is required to take proper measures against any US violations of Iranian government members and or resources and assets, including legal action in International Court of Justice,” reads the bill, “the government is also required to implement court verdicts or other authorities’ decisions in line with Iran’s national interests in retaliatory measures against any US resources in a third country, and to address laws and regulations in those countries which legalize encroachments against Iranian interests and to challenge those laws in proper manner.”
The bill also requires the government to provide a report of its periodic measures in implementation of this law to Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission and Legal and Judicial Commission.
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