A U.S. federal court has ordered Iran’s regime to pay $841 million in damages to 36 plaintiffs whose relatives were injured or killed in several terrorist attacks in Iraq.
The U.S. federal court found Iran’s regime responsible for the injuries and deaths resulting from multiple terrorist attacks in Iraq and issued a verdict ordering the payment of $841 million in compensation to 36 plaintiffs whose family members were wounded or killed in those attacks.
In his 12-page ruling issued on October 31, the judge wrote that the court recognizes that no amount of money, no matter how large, can restore what the victims in this case have lost—whether as a result of the heinous actions of Iran’s regime or the terrorist groups it supports.
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According to the ruling, Iran’s regime provided substantial material support to the Zarqawi network and Ansar al-Islam between 2003 and 2017 to carry out multiple terrorist attacks in Iraq. The court awarded approximately $420.7 million in compensatory damages and $420.7 million in punitive damages to 36 plaintiffs whose family members were injured or killed in Iraq’s western Anbar province.
This is not the first time that U.S. courts have issued verdicts ordering Iran’s regime to pay damages.
In March 2025, a court in Washington, D.C. ordered Iran’s regime and the Syrian government to pay $191 million in compensation to the family of an American citizen killed in Israel.
The court ruled that Iran’s regime and Syria were responsible for the murder of Ari Fuld, an American citizen who was stabbed to death in 2018 by a Hamas member in the West Bank.
In August 2019, a U.S. federal court found Tehran guilty of supporting Yemen’s Houthi militants who were involved in the 2015 abduction of two American citizens, one of whom was later killed.
According to the ruling, since the Houthis could not have carried out the kidnapping without Iran’s support, the plaintiffs were entitled to financial compensation from Iran.
Victims usually rely on the U.S. Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Fund (USVSST Fund) to receive compensation, as “obtaining money directly from Iran is nearly impossible.”
Currently, more than 21,000 people are eligible to receive compensation from this fund, including about 13,000 victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks and 8,800 others affected by other international terrorist acts.
