Zarif: Iran not recognizing US supreme court's verdict as legal
Iran does not recognize the verdict of the U.S. Supreme Court against Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted by IRNA as saying.
"The U.S. government knows well that any attempt concerning Iran's assets will make that country in the position of accountability vis-à-vis the Iranian nation and obliging that country to return those assets to the Iranian nation,' Zarif told reporters at the end of special meeting of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York on April 21.
Zarif, commenting on his meeting with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry to be held on April 22, said that the two foreign ministers will not discuss issues other than the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the issues related to its proper implementation.
"Our discussion here will be in continuation of the previous talks on JCPOA and we have agreed that the American side to study the points that were raised by us and in relation to the proper implementation of the JCPOA and respond to us," he noted.
Asked whether he will discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's verdict against Iran during his meeting with Kerry, Zarif said, "as we have said before we do not recognize the verdict by the U.S. court and the U.S. government is well-aware of that."
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 20 ruled that almost $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to American families of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran.
The assets belong to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), which has been blocked under U.S. sanctions.
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