Legal Opinion
Namazi v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 7, 2026No. Civil Action No. 2024-3506Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SIAMAK NAMAZI & MOHAMMAD BAQUER NAMAZI, Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 24-3506 (JEB) ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION When Siamak Namazi flew to Iran to attend a funeral in July of 2015, he could hardly have imagined that the four-day trip he had planned would turn into an eight-year ordeal ending only in a prisoner swap. Nor could he have suspected that his elderly father, Mohammad Baquer Namazi, would join him in prison in February of the following year. Siamak and Baquer Namazi, summarily convicted on charges…
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