TEHRAN - Iranian lawmakers has drafted a bill demanding compensation from the U.S. after recent measures taken in the United States to appropriate the frozen Iranian assets.

The draft bill, signed by 203 lawmakers, was handed over with a single urgency status to the parliament’s presiding board on Monday for examination, MP Ibrahim Karkhaneh said.

“After examination at the special commission, the bill will be presented to Majlis for voting,” the Fars news agency quoted Karkhaneh as saying.

“The bill on receiving compensation and damages from the U.S. government was prepared after recent anti-Iranian measures taken by the American administration and Congress,” he added.

The Iranian draft bill, initially introduced late last month, cites 11 cases of U.S. role in actions against the Islamic Republic for which it demands compensation.

On top of the list, the bill demands restitution from the U.S. over loss of lives and property damage resulting from the CIA-led 1953 coup which toppled the government of Mohammad Mosaddeq and restored the shah as an absolute dictator.

The U.S. should also pay compensation for more than 223,000 Iranians killed and about 600,000 others injured “due to American intelligence, political and military cooperation” with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his 1980-1988 war on Iran, the draft says.

The bill further seeks damages over U.S. support for the MKO and other terrorist groups in assassinating and kidnapping Iranians and hijacking the country’s flights as well as Washington’s sanctions on Tehran and blockade of its assets.

The MPs have also cited the U.S. government complicit in Saudi killing of Iranian pilgrims in 1987 and deaths of more than 460 others during the Hajj stampede in Mina in September and demanded compensation.

------ Iranian lawmakers denounce anti-Iran Saudi policies

Also, Iranian parliamentarians harshly criticized Saudi Arabia for adopting hostile policies toward Iran, including Riyadh’s recent aerial attack on Tehran’s embassy in Sana’a, Yemen.

Over 220 MPs called on the Foreign Ministry to pursue the issue through legal channels at the international level.

The lawmakers also denounced Riyadh’s execution of top cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr and “the pressure Saudi Arabia exerts on its nation and other Muslim countries” in the region.

They also slammed Saudi Arabia for causing instability across the Middle East through supporting terrorist groups.

The legislators described Saudi Arabia as a “hub for nurturing terrorist dogma,” reiterating the Islamic Republic’s firm determination to confront terrorism and those who support the ominous menace.

They said that Riyadh’s “wrongful” policies in attacking a Muslim country like Yemen has been adopted with a green light from the United States in order to serve the interests of the Israeli regime and undermine the Muslim countries.

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