Iran to pay US journalist $ 180 million, court says

American journalist Jason Rezaian

American journalist Jason Rezaian

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A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay $ 180 million in a case involving a Washington Post journalist and his family for more than 544 days in prison and torture. Iran detained US journalist for spying. The court made the decision in a case filed by Jason Rezaian. News about the case has come at a time when intranet services have begun to be restored in Iran. Iranian officials also shut down the internet, among other measures to curb anti-government protests over a week’s hike in petrol prices. The US government has imposed sanctions on Iran’s telecommunication minister for banning the Internet.

District Judge Richard Leon of the United States on Friday evening decided to resign the claim. Iranian authorities did not give gold to torture detained journalists, the decision said he did not provide medical care when he was ill and tortured him during detention. The decision states that Iran placed Jason Rezaian in jail. Threaten to kill him and did so to release the Iranian prisoners in the United States in exchange for his release. The judge wrote in his verdict that it is a shameful move to host a person, torture him and in turn gain the benefits of negotiating with the United States, which deserves punishment. Iran has never participated in the case even though the court sent a notice through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran. The Swiss Embassy in Tehran looks after US interests in this country.

Jason Rezaian’s trial began in 2014 with the arrest of his wife Yeganeh Salehi at gunpoint it tells how Iran arrests Westerners for negotiation. Human rights groups, US investigators and detained family members condemned it. However, it is unclear how Jason Rezaian will pay $ 180 million. Will this money be paid from a US-funded terrorist-funded state? The fund was established by the United States in 1979 to help the victims after the occupation of the US embassy in Tehran and hostage staff. The United States imposed sanctions on Islamist soldiers, calling it a terrorist group and imposing sanctions.

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