OVEISSI v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Civil Action No. 03-1197(RCL).

498 F.Supp.2d 268 (2007)

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

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Cervantes, Arlington, VA, Thomas Fortune Fay, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

LAMBERTH, District Judge.

This action arises from the death of Gholam Ali Oveissi, chief of the Iranian armed forces under the Shah's pre-revolutionary government, who was gunned down on a Paris street in February 1984. Plaintiff Amir Reza Oveissi, Gholam's grandson, alleges that agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran") and its intelligence service, the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security ("MOIS"), carried out the...

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