Canadian judge turns over Iranian assets to Hizballah victims
In a landmark ruling, Ontario Superior Court Judge David M. Brown ordered $7 million worth of Iranian bank assets and two properties operating as “cultural centers” liquidated and the proceeds handed to two victims of Hizballah terror. The recipients are Joseph Cicippio of the American University of Beirut who was abducted by Hizballah which is an Iranian proxy in 1986 and held for five years, and Edward Tracy, then a bookseller living in Beirut, who was snatched the month after Cicippio