Iran called on the United Nations (UN) to intervene after the US Supreme Court ruled that $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets should be given to victims of terrorist attacks.
Tehran wants the UN Secretary General, Ban Kimoon, to use his "good offices in order to induce the US Government to adhere to its international obligations" and put an end to "the violation of the fundamental principle of state immunity," Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif stated in a letter sent Thursday to Ban Kimoon.
According to Zarif, the US must release all Iranian assets frozen in US banks and stop any "interference" on the Iranian financial transactions abroad, - EPA reports.
Zarif stated in the letter to Ban that he wanted to alert him about "the catastrophic implications of the blatant disrespect for state immunity, which will cause systematic erosion of this fundamental principle."