Estate of Amer Fakhoury v. Islamic Republic of Iran

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ESTATE OF AMER FAKHOURY et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 21-1218 (JDB) ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Amer Fakhoury was a healthy fifty-six-year-old man when he left the United States for Lebanon in early September 2019 to visit family he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Decl. of Guila Fakhoury [ECF No. 34] (“Guila Decl.”) ¶ 25; Decl. of Micheline Elias [ECF No. 33] (“Elias Decl.”) ¶ 5. He returned to the United States six months later “a broken man” suffering from stage IV lymphoma. Elias Decl. ¶¶ 33, 35.…