JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The families of American victims of the October 7 attacks have filed suit in a US federal court against Iran and an array of linked terror groups, presenting what they say is new proof of Tehran’s involvement in the attack, according to a Times of Israel report.
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The suit accuses Tehran of supporting the single deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, details Iran’s funding of Hamas and its embrace of other terrorist organizations seeking to destroy Israel. The lawsuit relies, at least partly, on Hamas documents that were seized in Gaza and published in the news media, including The New York Times
Additionally, attorneys for the plaintiffs say they have secret documents uncovered by lawyer Gary Osen which show that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps funnelled millions of dollars to Hamas to promote its terrorist activities.
The complaint includes a document from a 2022 meeting of senior Hamas members Yahya Sinwar, Khalil al-Hayya and others plotting out the contours of mutual defense agreement between Hamas and other Iran-backed groups should war break out. The paper includes a decision to request Iran to send Hamas $7 million monthly to fund “the big project”- a euphemism for the Oct. 7th attack, according to a New York Times report.
Aside from Iran and the IRGC, the suit also names Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
While the documents include references to funding for Hamas from Qatar and Turkey, neither country is named in the suit. Also left out are Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who were taken off the US’s terror blacklist by the Biden administration.
Forty-six Americans, including children, were killed on Oct. 7. Hamas also took about 250 people hostage, including 12 Americans. Seven Americans remain in Gaza but three are presumed dead.
Other plaintiffs in the suit include families from southern Israel who suffered emotionally during or after the attacks. Families of several soldiers killed in combat since Oct. 7th are also named.
Among the 37 families of victims in the suit is Yechiel Leiter, who is set to become Israel’s ambassador to the US. Leiter’s son Moshe Leiter was killed in battle in Gaza in late November 2023.
The suit seeks unspecified financial awards for the families under the US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Anti-Terrorism Act.
And now sue the American outhouses…I mean Universities….
Those momzarim should be hit in the pocket, where it hurts. This time, the lawsuits will be allowed to proceed. When American diplomatic hostages returned home in early 1981, after being abducted and held by Iran for over fourteen months, they also sued in Federal Court. For some unknown reason, the U.S. State Department opposed their lawsuit, and did everything it could to prevent the former hostages from receiving just compensation for their ordeal.