{"id":76062,"date":"2017-11-20T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76062"},"modified":"2017-11-20T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:04:23","slug":"gold-star-families-join-in-lawsuit-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76062","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star families join in lawsuit against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our Gold Star mothers send us a link to an article<\/a> about Gold Star families who have joined in a lawsuit, (Holladay, et al. v. Iran) against Iran in US District Court in Washington, DC to hold the state sponsors of terror responsible for the deaths and injuries of their family members in the war in Iraq from 2003 – 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day we work on this case, we are finding more ties between Iran and the attacks on our citizens and service members in Iraq,\u201d said Gavriel Mairone, whose law firm, MM-Law, joined Levin Papantonio in the lawsuit. His firm is devoted exclusively to representing victims of terrorism.<\/p>\n

Mairone said, in a press release, \u201cThis investigation gives us the opportunity to hold state sponsors of terror, and those who support and facilitate terrorism, responsible for their abhorrent, systematic killing and maiming of U.S. soldiers and civilians who were on the ground to maintain peace and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Data suggests that the majority of the 36,000 + U.S. casualties in the war resulted from attacks that can be linked to Iranian-sponsored terrorists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congress voted to override President Obama’s veto on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) in the Fall of 2016. The law allowed US citizens to seek legal retribution from state sponsors of terrorism, which Iran is according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

The article also states that banks which supplied Iran with US dollars to pay their agents are also targets of the lawsuit;<\/p>\n

Obtaining U.S. currency was a challenge for Iran because of economic sanctions. They needed help. Enter nine European banks that facilitated the money-laundering. The banks have already pleaded guilty, or admitted and entered into deferred prosecution agreements with U.S. regulators that they conspired with Iran, the Central Bank of Iran, and several other Iranian banks, to illegally provide billions of U.S. dollars to Iran during the Iraq War.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout those U.S. dollars, Iran could not possibly have committed the acts of terror that it did in Iraq and certainly could not have had the lethality or the efficiency that it truly did,\u201d said Paulos. \u201cIn some parts of Iraq, 70-percent of the casualties at any given time were being caused not by the Iranian army or the Iraqi army or some act of war but by acts of terrorism being committed by known, specially designated terrorists on the ground in Iraq using money and munitions provided by the State of Iran.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you think that you might have a claim, the lawyers have set up a website at the Iraq War Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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