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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The brother of an Iranian terrorism victim can collect $2.8 million from a California company that owes Iran for a canceled weapons shipment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Dariush Elahi's brother, Cyrus, was a leader in a France-based Iranian opposition movement and was assassinated in Paris in 1990. French authorities blamed the Iranian government for the killing.
In 2000, Dariush Elahi sued Iran in federal court in Washington. The Iranian government failed to respond to the lawsuit and, after a trial, a judge awarded Elahi $11.7 million in compensatory and $300 million in punitive damages.
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