Well, I’m sure that will happen.
To compensate them, Iran’s non-diplomatic assets in Canadian cities were sold off. The government views Tehran’s diplomatic properties, such as its Ottawa embassy building, as untouchable, but victims are seeking to change that through the courts.
That’s a pretty neat way to compensate the victims.
Iranian officials have expressed outrage over the loss of their Canadian properties and bank accounts, accusing Ottawa of “economic terrorism.” They have also threatened to seize Canadian ships in retaliation.
Economic terrorism? How dare you take away the things we own in your country! By that definition, repo men are terrorists. Hrm, maybe they have a point actually.
I won my settlement against Iran.
Yeah? What’d ya get?
Their fucking embassy, bro. I’m a country now. Jeffistan.
I don’t object to the idea, but man the judge’s justification for why this legally makes sense is downright farcical.
It feels more like the Canadians attacking Iran than it being a just resolution to a tort case. Have the Canadians done this to any other country? I know the US has held and tortured plenty of people during the war on terror and I can’t recall any US assets being seized to pay victims’ restitution.