Iran has welcomed a decision by a Luxembourg court rejecting a US court ruling in a case involving American plaintiffs' attempts to gain access to $1.6 billion in frozen Iranian assets stemming from the September 11 al-Qaeda attacks. The Foreign Ministry hailed the decision as a new era in which the United States cannot will its way in the world.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahman Ghassemi, speaking to reporters about the ruling that prevented the assets' seizure, said, “This success was the result of a complaint filed by the Central Bank of Iran and cooperation between the Central Bank, the Foreign Ministry and legal advisers of the president to realize the rights of the Iranian people.”
