As the war with Iran unfolded, Tehran came under attack on another, less noticed front: a barrage of legal papers issued from a federal courthouse in Manhattan.

The filings concern the claims of thousands of American victims of Iranian terrorism to what now appears to be a major sticking point in the announced peace deal: $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

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WILL VICTIMS BE VICTIMIZED AGAIN?

Should President Trump fail to take account of Iranian-terrorism victims holding legal judgments, the hurt will run deep.

“My clients would be victimized again, as would every other victim of Iranian terrorism,” said New York attorney Jerry Goldman, whose firm, Anderson Kill, represents thousands of 9/11 victims, including the family of John O’Neill, the FBI counterterrorism expert who repeatedly warned the U.S. government about the threat posed by al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

O’Neill, frustrated by bureaucratic roadblocks, quit the FBI in August 2001 to take a job as security director for the World Trade Center. He died in the collapse of the South Tower.

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