The
Iran-United States Claims Tribunal came into existence as one of the measures
taken to resolve the crisis between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United
States of America arising out of the detention of 52 United States nationals by
a group of Iranian students at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, and
the subsequent freeze by the United States Government of Iranian assets in the
United States. The Government of the Democratic and Popular Republic of
Algeria served as intermediary in the search for a mutually acceptable
solution. Having consulted extensively with the two Governments as to the
commitments each was willing to undertake in order to resolve the crisis, the
Government of Algeria recorded those commitments in two Declarations made on 19
January 1981. These documents, the "General Declaration" and the "Claims
Settlement Declaration," or the "Algiers Accords" as they are often called,
were agreed to by Iran and the United States and, inter alia, provided for the
establishment of the Tribunal.
Database
This website offers you a fully-searchable database of the Iran-United States
Claims Tribunal's rulings and some additional general documents. These
documents are provided and updated by the Tribunal's Registry. The database and
pages therein are made available for personal use only and as such cannot be
reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or used for commercial
or general distribution, creating new collective works, or for resale, without
the written permission of the Tribunal
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