U.S., IRAN SIGN DEAL TO SETTLE SOME CLAIMS TEHRAN TO PAY $105 MILLION; LARGER DISPUTES STILL ON TABLE

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Tehran to Pay $105 Million; Larger Disputes er Dis utes Still on Table
By Nora Boustany mad Reza Pahlavi paid that amount individuals who were forced to exit
Washington Post Staff Writer on contracts that were broken after under emergency circumstances,
The United States and Iran the 1979 revolution.
Some of their figures are without being compensated for
signed an agreement over the fantastic. Obviously, and quite property back salary and wages.
weekend to settle 2,795 small U.S. the Iranian view of what they have tatively agreed to a
claims as well as a few U.S. govern- our vie The United States also has ten-
ment claims against Tehran with a are very far apart," said one senior $400,000 to settle 108small laims
lump sum payment of $105 million, official,
from Iranians. Included is a claim
State Department officials an- The tribunal, set up in 1981 un- for personal property left behind by
nounced yesterday, der an accord that freed 52 Amer- scans Iranian naval cadets who had to sus.
The agreement will allow U.S. held hostage at the U.S. Em- pend training in the United States
and Iranian negotiators to concen- bassy compound in Tehran, is the after the hostages were seized.
and on iangn gotta for disputes en- sole forum for official contact be-
trate tween the w nations. tween both countries since the ru _ The U.S. administration and chief
ranian negotiator All Nobari insist
ture in U.S.-Iranian ties. p I
there no
A State Department specialist "The advantages to the U.S. are recentfsreleases of connectiontwobetweenU.S. the
said that the agreement, signed fairly clear. It resolves a very large tages in Beirut and the small claims
Sunday in The Hague, resolved hos-
un a "large n Hag e, claims b portion of the claims tribunal's negotiations. Iran experts sa d,
both .American neach for work load, which hopefully will however, that any settlement could
$250,000
Ameri an or nationals, less ion and "10 lake it possible to turn its atten- only help Iranian President Ali
the go the loans an d tion to the remainder of its cases Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani or oth-
from government o the government of Iran and finish its work much more ers pushing for further hostage re-
for
States itosassistnce purposes." quickly. Secondly, it assures that leases as an indication that a more
Among the major disputes et to compensation will get to these flexible policy toward Washington
y claimants much faster," a senior has its rewards.
be settled by the Iran-U.S. Claims State Department official said of
Tribunal in The Hague is Iran's
On Sunday, the commander of
claim of more than $10 billion for the accord.
the ,
Those claimants include U.S. Gen, SAnt i ee Lahd, said Y he militiawas
undelivered U.S. military goods and companies that had property seized ready to swap some Shiite Leba-
services. Iran claims that the gov- or were not paid for goods and ser- ruse detainees for 16 western hos-
ernment of the late Shah Moham- vices delivered to Iran as well as tages and three Israeli servicemen.
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