Salazar v. Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is “like an ‘armed force’ under the ultimate command of the leadership of the Iranian government”
• using Dammarell II approach to apply Illinois state law as foundation for plaintiffs causes-of-action against Iran arising out of 1983 U.S. embassy bombing
• describing the 1983 U.S. embassy bombings in Lebanon as “ ‘clearly contrary to the precepts of humanity as recognized in both national and international law’”
• analogizing the IRGC to the MOIS for purposes of liability, and concluding that both must be treated as the State of Iran itself
• analogizing the IRGC to the MOIS for purposes of liability, and concluding that both must be treated as the State of Iran itself
• declining plaintiff’s request for punitive damages against Iran, MOIS, and the Revolutionary Guards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).