ICJ Orders U.S. to Compensate Iran for Illegally Freezing Assets

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The U.S., for its part, had seized such assets through a mixture of executive orders, legislative measures, and court rulings to compensate victims of terrorism, which it argued Iran facilitated.
42% : Iran brought the case in 2016, alleging that U.S. courts had asserted jurisdiction over Iranian entities in violation of customary international law and the Treaty of Amity -- a 1957 friendship agreement governing economic and consular relations between the two states.
31% : On March 30, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a partial win for Iran in a case alleging the illegal U.S. seizure of Iranian assets.

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