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MASHAYEKHI v. IRAN

Civ. A. No. 79-2039.

515 F.Supp. 41 (1981)

Kamran MASHAYEKHI and Claudia Mashayekhi, Plaintiffs, v. IRAN, and Iran National Radio and Television, Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 10, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ritchie, Richard P. Crane, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Thomas G. Shack, Jr., Christine Cook Nettesheim, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

GESELL, District Judge.

This is a civil action for damages brought pursuant to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA").

The issue now presented on defendants' motion to dismiss is whether an Iranian citizen can invoke that Act to recover money allegedly due him under his former employment contract with an instrumentality of the Iranian Government for work done in the United States. The motion to dismiss attacks the jurisdiction of...

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