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US Court Orders Iran to Pay $1.4 Billion in Damages to Missing Former FBI
Agent's Family

Reuters

   WASHINGTON - A U.S. court has ordered the government of Iran to pay
   more than $1.4 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to the
   family of a former FBI agent who disappeared during a visit to an
   Iranian island in March 2007.

   In a decision issued late last week, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly
   said he adopted a special expert's recommendation that Robert
   Levinson's family be awarded $107 million in compensatory damages. The
   judge awarded punitive damages of $1.3 billion.

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