Terrorism Claims Require a U.S. Nexus
A federal district court in Washington D.C. has rendered an important decision imposing limits on the scope of terrorism claims. In Oveissi v. Iran, the court addressed an action "aris[ing] from the death of Gholam Ali Oveissi, chief of the Iranian armed forces under the Shah's pre-revolutionary government, who was gunned down on a Paris street in February 1984....