The Iranian parliament have approved the general outlines of a bill that would obligate the government to claim compensation from the United States for its crimes against Iran and its nationals over the past 63 years, Press TV reports.
Iran’s lawmakers adopted the bill with 174 votes in favor, 7 votes against, and 4 abstentions.
According to the bill, administration will have to take legal measures to receive compensation from the US government. Under the bill, Washington should also pay for damage it inflicted on the Islamic Republic by dipping into Iran’s assets frozen in the US banks.
"If the US should seek to misappropriate the Iranian nation’s assets, the strait must be turned into an insecure place for them and US vessels banned from passing through it,” the Iranian MP Hamid Rasaei said, noting that such a countermeasure would be both “logical and legal.”
