Legal Opinion
Oveissi v. Islamic Republic of Iran
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 28, 2009No. 07-7132PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiff in this case is the grandson of Gholam Oveissi, who was chief of the Iranian armed forces under the Shah’s regime. Members of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, operating under the name Islamic Jihad, assassinated Oveissi in Paris in 1984. In 2003, the plaintiff sued the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that the defendants had funded and directed Islamic Jihad. The district…
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3Cited by115 opinions
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