Legal Opinion

Mashayekhi v. Iran

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided June 10, 1981No. Civ. A. 79-2039PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM

GESELL, District Judge.

This is a civil action for damages brought pursuant to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”).

The issue now presented on defendants’ motion to dismiss is whether an Iranian citizen can invoke that Act to recover money allegedly due him under his former employment contract with an instrumentality of the Iranian Government for work done in the United States. The motion to dismiss attacks the jurisdiction of the Court and asserts, in the alternative, that defendants are immune from suit.

Plaintiff Kamran Mashayekhi 1 formerly worked as Bureau Chief of the…

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