Legal Opinion
Salazar v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 29, 2005No. CIV.A. 02-0558(JDB)PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
BATES, District Judge.
Plaintiff Donna K. Salazar (“plaintiff’) is the widow of Mark E. Salazar, a decorated Army Staff Sergeant who was fatally injured in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon on April 18, 1983. She brought this action against the Islamic Republic of Iran (“Iran”), the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (“MOIS”), the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (“IRGC”), Hizbollah, and several former Iranian functionaries 1 (collectively, “defendants”), seeking compensatory damages for wrongful death, solatium, and intentional infliction of…
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