Iran condemns US court verdict about 9/11

'Issuing such verdicts is illegal and condemned; it mocks not only the international laws but also the people of the US, especially the victims of the 9/11 incident,' said Bahram Qasemi.

Although Iran has had no role in the incident and all the organizers and the attackers of the 9/11 incident were from Arab countries, Federal Judge George B. Daniels in New York sentenced Iran to pay six billions of dollars to parents, spouses, siblings and children of more than 1,000 9/11 victims.

The 9/11 was organized by 15 Saudi, 2 UAE, one Egyptian and one Lebanese nationals.

Qasemi added that the designers of this game are trying to distort the facts and divert the paths of the lawsuits and write history as they wish.

The 9/11 incident was organized and implemented by al-Qaeda that was, according to the confessions made by the US authorities, created and supported by the Saudis and the US.

Due to immunity protection, the legal case against Saudi Arabia could not go to the court in the United States. But when the US Congress passed the Justice against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) in 2016, things changed.

The new law drew the floodgates for families and spouses of victims to file cases against any organization, states or personnel who may have supported the attacks on 9/11.

With the US-Saudi ties having become intimate after Donald Trump took office in January 2017, JUSTA got marginalized and early this year, Saudi Arabia called upon US federal judge to reject a lawsuit that seeks to hold the Saudis accountable for 9/11.

The Saudis have been accused of funding and directly supporting the 19 Al-Qaeda hijackers who crashed flights into the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington in 2001.

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