Reading Room Document

Effect Within the United States of Iranian Decrees Confiscating the Shah's Assets

Courts of the United States may give effect to Iranian decrees confiscating the property of the late Shah and his family, and will do so if the Executive stipulates, as an integral part of an international agreement with Iran, that such decrees will be given extraterritorial effect within the United States. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/22411/download.

November 17, 1980