On Sept. 4, 1997, three suicide bombers of the Palestinian fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic group Hamas blew themselves up on a crowded pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.

Eight severely injured U.S. citizens and their families, led by Jenny Rubin, sued Iran, the attack-sponsor, in Washington, D.C. federal court in 2003, under the terrorism exception to the FSIA.

Though the plaintiffs won a $71.5 million default judgment that year, Iran did not pay.

The victims then registered the judgment in Chicago federal court, initiating attachment proceedings to execute on four collections of Iranian artifacts then held by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute and the city’s Field Museum of Natural History.

The artifacts include about 30,000 clay tablets of some of the oldest writings in the world, which Iran loaned to the Institute in 1937, known as the Persepolis Collection.

Also at issue are Dr. Ernst Herzfeld’s collection of about 1,200 prehistoric artifacts found in Persia in the early 1900s, which the Field Museum bought in 1945, as well as clay seal impressions from the ancient Chogha Mish settlement, which the Institute acquired in the 1960s.

Above is the crux of the case the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Americans injured in a 1997 Hamas suicide bombing can seize Iranian artifacts in U.S. to satisfy a $71 million judgment.

As some one who has been openly and persistently advocating backbreaking airtight-sanctions with the sole aim of regime change in Iran, I find this development very troubling.

The American victims of the unreformable warmongering, uber-international terror sponsoring Islamist fascists –“reformers” and all- do deserve compensation and above that, justice.

However, by seizing the national assets of Iranians, and historical artifacts at that, to be sold to satisfy the judgment, the American victims of Islamist fascists will be victimizing the hapless Iranian people who are themselves the primary victims of the Islamist fascists’ barbarity.

There are currently many Islamist fascist operatives and officials who have resettled in North America, almost to the one with great amount of assets that they’ve looted from Iran and unabashedly flaunt it in the West.

Instead of trying to collect their rightful judgment by selling off irreplaceable world heritage collection, it would be prudent for the American victims of Islamist fascists to go after the immense assets of criminal Islamist fascists roaming amongst them. One of them is this Islamist fascist living in his N.J. mansion (below video)

Above is the blog posted on June of last year, U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision on Wednesday essentially in favor of the Iranian people, who in addition to being victims of the Islamist fascists, could have been been victimized by an adverse decision as well:

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Americans injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem cannot seize ancient Persian artifacts from a Chicago museum to satisfy a $71.5 million court judgment against Iran, which they had accused of complicity in the attack.”

Lets hope the attorneys for the victims of the unreformable, expansionist and warmongering Islamist fascists will now go after the assets of the Islamist fascists and their lobbies in America  to collect the judgments.  

Airtight sanctions, a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.