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1 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. §§1330, 1332, 1602–1611 (1982).
2 Letter from Department of State Legal Adviser to Attorney General, Nov. 10, 1976, 75 Dep’t St. Bull. 649 (1976).
3 Declaration of the Government of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria Concerning the Settlement of Claims by the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jan. 19, 1981, reprinted in 75 AJIL 422 (1981), 20 ILM 230 (1981). For discussion of the content and impact of the Algiers Accords, see Norton & Collins, Reflections on the Iranian Hostage Settlement, 67 A.B.A. J. 428 (1981). For discussion of the decisions of the Tribunal and their significance, see Damrosch, Crook, Jones, Stein & Clagett, Decisions of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, 78 ASIL Proc. 221 (1984) (panel discussion).
4 453 U.S. 654 (1981). See also, e.g., American Int’l Group v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 657 F.2d 430 (D.C. Cir. 1981); Chas. T. Main Int’l, Inc. v. Khuzestan Water & Power Auth., 651 F.2d 800 (1st Cir. 1981); New Eng. Merchants Nat’l Bank v. Iran Power Generation & Transmissions Co., 646 F.2d 779 (2d Cir. 1981).