Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in 2012. (AP)
The families are seeking financial compensation from Iran under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Anti-Terrorism Act.
By World Israel News Staff
The families of victims murdered in the October 7th terror onslaught are suing Iran in an American court, presenting previously-unseen evidence that the Islamic Republic was directly involved in supporting the plan for the massacre.
The suit, filed in Washington D.C. Federal Court by those whose relatives held U.S. citizenship, charges that Iran had advanced direct knowledge of the October 7th plan and provided extensive funding to Hamas for the attack.
Documents presented in the lawsuit, which appear to have been obtained directly from Hamas leadership, detailed how a prominent Iranian military commander had met with a senior Hamas official just months before the attack. The Iranian official assured his Hamas counterpart that Tehran would fully support the slaughter.
The terror group’s slain leader, Yahya Sinwar, demanded that Iran funnel Hamas $7 million on a monthly basis for the upcoming “big project” – a code name for the October 7th murder, rape, kidnapping, and mutilation spree.
“Hard, incontrovertible evidence of who funded Hamas is now becoming available in the form of documents, bank records and the like, and we intend to hold those parties accountable, in the courts of the United States or elsewhere, for however long it takes,” said attorneys Gary Osen and Lee Wolosky, who are leading the case, said in a statement.
The families are seeking financial compensation from Iran under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Anti-Terrorism Act.
All the groups named in the lawsuit, which include Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, are all officially designated as terror organizations by the U.S. government.
46 Americans were murdered by Hamas on October 7th, including children, babies, and elderly people. 12 were taken hostage to Gaza, where seven remain today.
Three of those American hostages are confirmed to be dead.
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