Judge: Iran Owes US Families $813M

A US court has ruled that Iran owes $813 million to the families of 241 US soldiers killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marines barracks in Lebanon, reports the AFP. The two Beirut bombings on Oct. 23, 1983, which also killed 58 French paratroopers, have been blamed on Hezbollah, a Shiite terrorist group backed by Iran. The judgment is the eighth against Iran related to the attacks, adding up to $8.8 billion in damages.

"Iran is racking up quite a bill from its sponsorship of terrorism," said the Washington judge, adding, "no award—however many billions it contained—could accurately reflect the countless lives that have been changed by Iran's dastardly acts." (More Iran stories.)