A US court has vindicated Saudi Arabia and ruled against Iran over the ‘September 11’ incidents in America, where over a dozen Saudi citizens, not Iranians, staged multiple plane-crash attacks back in 2001.
New York district judge George Daniels issued the default judgment on Wednesday, claiming Iran failed to defend itself against allegations of having a role in the attacks.
The court ruled that Iran must pay more than 10 billion dollars in damages to families of people killed on 9/11.
The ruling is based on the 9/11 Commission Report which stated that some attackers moved through Iran and did not have their passports stamped.
It also said Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement provided advice and training to al-Qaeda members who carried out the attacks.
Daniels had earlier cleared Saudi Arabia from culpability.
The allegations come as 15 of the 19 attackers were Saudi citizens and not a single one was Iranian. Two were from the United Arab…