OVEISSI v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

No. 03-cv-1197 (RCL).

768 F.Supp.2d 1 (2010)

Amir Reza OVEISSI, Plaintiff, v. The ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 12, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Cervantes, Arlington, VA, Thomas Fortune Fay, Fay Kaplan Law, PA, Washington, DC, Ezra D. Landes, Law Offices of James W. Spertus, James W. Spertus, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case arises out of the assassination of Gholam Ali Oveissi, a military leader in pre-revolution Iran, who was gunned down on a Paris street in February 1984 by the agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran") and its intelligence service, the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security ("MOIS"). Plaintiff Amir Reza Oveissi, grandson to the senior Oveissi, brought...

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