IRAN-USA – TELAM Agency
The Iranian Court today ordered the United States government to pay 330 million dollars in compensation for its involvement in an attempted coup in 1980, where three people died.
“Following the complaint filed by the families of the victims of the Nojeh coup, a court in Tehran ordered the United States to pay 330 million dollars,” announced the judicial press organ Mizan Online and the AFP news agency replied.
In July 1980, a year after the triumph of the Islamic revolution, a group of officers planned to bomb the residence of Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini, top leader of the then new government, as well as military centers, and take control of state television.
But a day before carrying out the operation, more than 120 people were arrested for their alleged involvement in it and three people were killed in clashes between government forces and participants in the conspiracy around the Nojeh airbase in the west. of the country, where the uprising was to begin.
According to Mizan Online, “the complaint before the Tehran International Court against the US government for the planning and execution of the coup” was filed “by the families of the three martyrs of the Nojeh coup in July 2002.” .
Several high-ranking officers, including the last commander of the Shah’s (monarch’s) regime’s Air Force, were executed for their involvement in the attempt, after which the Islamic power launched a purge of the military,
Iran recently commemorated the 70th anniversary of the coup, partially orchestrated by the CIA, which in August 1953 overthrew Prime Minister Mohamed Mosadegh, who was pushing a program to nationalize Iranian oil.
The then Shah of Iran, Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, crowned in 1941, strengthened his power after that coup and remained on the throne until 1979, when he was deposed by the Islamic revolution.
Source: Ambito
