Shurat Hadin battles to seize Internet assets of Iran, Syria, N.Korea to pay terror victims

JERUSALEM POST
by Yonah Jeremy Bob
September 29, 2014

The battle for Shurat Hadin– Israel Law Center and the American families of victims it represents who hold unsatisfied US federal court judgments against Iran, Syria and North Korea for sponsoring terrorism amounting to more than a billion dollars kicked into high gear recently, with the NGO filing a motion to push forward with trying to seize Internet assets used by those countries.

The Jerusalem Post acquired copies of the unreported court documents filed at the end of last week. Also last week, the nuclear negotiations with Iran that connect to frozen assets came back to the headlines.

The move to seize the Internet assets is unprecedented and could have great consequences beyond the already noteworthy cases.

The assets that the NGO and US firm Raines Feldman LLP seek to seize include all the “top-level domain” names provided by those countries, including the .ir TLD, the Farsi-letter version of the .ir TLD and all Internet Protocol addresses being utilized by the Iranian government and its agencies as well as those being used by Syria and North Korea…..

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