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US court ruling aims to derail Iran nuclear deal: Analyst

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 5:47 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 11 May 2016 5:48 AM ]

This file photo shows the US Supreme Court building.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, editor of Veterans Today in Madison, and Lawrence J. Korb, US foreign policy and national security analyst in Washington, to discuss a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States granting about two billion dollars in frozen Iranian assets to the families of victims of a 1983 bombing in Beirut.

Barrett said the US court ruling is actually an attempt to “derail” the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, adding that there is a “concerted campaign” by the opponents of the nuclear agreement in Washington to sabotage it through all sorts of efforts.

“This outrageous and crazy ruling did not just happen to pop up right now. The reason that it has suddenly reached the stage of being approved by the Supreme Court and so on is that these very, very corrupt Mafiosi who run our court system chose to do that and there is a reason for that - they are trying to derail the Iran nuclear deal,” he stated.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Barrett said that if Iran were to sue the United States for terrorism, it could easily be awarded trillions of dollars.

“If we are living in a world of international law, there has to be some sort of limit to this, otherwise each country could simply have its own courts, be going after other countries and that goes against the whole spirit of international agreements like this Iran nuclear deal,” he argues.

Korb, for his part, said the ruling has nothing to do with the nuclear deal because the law that the Supreme Court upheld was passed back in 2011. However, he added that Iran has every right to appeal it to an international court.

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