Omer "Chicho" Mahmoudzadeh, a father from Northern Virginia, was volunteering with Kurdish refugees in Iraq when Iranian missiles struck their camp in 2022.
A federal court held Iran liable for the February 7, 1984 assassination in Paris of General Gholam-Ali Oveissi and awarded his son, Shahryar Oveissi, $37.5 million in a case brought by Herischi Law.
A federal court awarded $19.5 million to the children of Abbas Amir-Entezam, deputy prime minister in Iran's first post-revolutionary government, holding Iran liable for torturing him during nearly four decades of imprisonment and house arrest.
A federal court held Iran liable for torturing Alireza Alinejad, imprisoned to pressure his sister, U.S. journalist and women's rights campaigner Masih Alinejad.
U.S.-citizen families of passengers killed when Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 on January 8, 2020 are suing Iran in federal court in Washington.
A U.S. citizen is suing Iran for the extrajudicial killing of her father, shot by a rooftop sniper during the mass crackdown on protests in Tehran on January 8, 2026. It is the first U.S. lawsuit arising directly from the January 2026 massacre.
When the tanker Sanchi sank in 2018, Iran declared all 32 crew dead. Evidence filed in court indicates the sailors escaped and were taken into state custody.
